On 06/08/17 23:58, Felix Miata wrote:

>> Felix Miata wrote:
> ...
>>> The mga6 Xorg server version has the modesetting driver incorporated, moved from
>>> being a separate driver package as of 1.17.x. Eradicating NVidia and
>>> x11-driver-video-nouveau (and remembering to get nomodeset off the kernel
>>> cmdline) to let it be used might be worth trying.
> 
>> There's no sign of nomodeset in the boot parameters. 
> 
> Maybe latest NVidia drivers have been updated to utilize KMS and I just haven't
> heard about it yet? AFAIK, NVidia's Xorg drivers require KMS be disabled.
 working TDE session.

The boot options do include 'nokmsboot', which I suspect achieves the
same result.

Tim W


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