Hi Khalid, I was now able to redo my tests with the same Laptop and nvidia device. And with the 3.10 kernel and more up to date Debian Sid packages in general.
Unfortunately it's still not really working. It behaves differently, but still isn't usable: With the Damn Small Linux mentioned in my previous email, I'm always getting a black screen with an underscore. I don't even get the scrambled colours of the desktop. When rebooting my current, fine working 3.10 kernel with kexec and this command [0], the following happens: The screen is blck during the initrd phase, I don't see the usual cryptsetup password prompt. After typing the password blindly the system continues booting and after the initrd phase the terminal with the boot log and process actually shows up. I suspect that the nouveau kernel modules have reset something at the moment. However when it then continues to start X, I only get a black screen with a white underscore again. But hey, I'm additionally getting a visible, interactive mouse cursor :)! So it looks like nouveau resets something, at least more than the Intel driver, but not enough. And/Or kexec does not reset enough. I can switch back to the terminal and that one still looks fine, switching back to X and it's still just black, the underscore and mouse cursor. Also restarting gdm3 from the terminal does not help. Using --reset-vga does not help either. Cheers, Linus [0]: kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-3.10-2-amd64 --initrd=/boot/initrd.img-3.10-2-amd64 --reuse-cmdline --reset-vga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
