Author: intrigeri Date: To: Soul Null, tails-testers\@boum.org Subject: Re: [Tails-testers] Nvidia Pascal no longer loads gdm
Hi,
Soul Null: > Submitted a whisperback under 3.9-rc1 with modeset=0 enabled.
Thanks.
> I also tried the live-config.xorg.driver=modesetting and it produced
> the same result unfortunately.
Too bad!
> Also, re: testing to make sure it's not my method of reloading the
> module, the problem is I can't set a password when loading in
> modeset=1 because I can't get to the greeter to set a password.
Set rootpw=$PASSWORD on the kernel command line. It gives you
a root password. A very unsafe one as anyone can read it from
/proc/cmdline, but very handy in this kind of situations :)