On Tue 16 Jul 2024 at 21:35:39 (+0100), mick.crane wrote: > I installed on a fresh disk the nightly build of Trixie and it works a > treat and it configured the monitor to it's highest resolution using > the nouveau module thing. > Unfortunately I broke my previous Trixie installation trying to get > rid of the nvidia module. > It still works with "startx" but the resolution is low. > Apt let me install the 6.9.8 kernel whereas wouldn't dist-upgrade, > probably as it had done that before. > I saw on the net to "update-initrmfs -u" so I did that. > So I think that earlier install has a kernel now free of the nvidia > but there must be some systemd left referencing stuff I've deleted > because there is some message at boot about can't find or load a > module and X wont automatically start. > I'd quite like to get that earlier install working cleanly to remind > me of what was installed.
You don't need to be able to run a system merely to list what's installed on it. Just mount the root filesystem somewhere, like /mnt, and type: $ dpkg-query --admindir=/mnt/var/lib/dpkg -W --showformat '${Package}_${Version}\n' | less Note the single quotes, to avoid the shell wiping out the format string. Cheers, David.