On 6/20/26 1:19 PM, Roger Price wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jun 2026, john doe wrote:
On 6/20/26 10:52 AM, Roger Price wrote:
I typed telinit 5 and nothing happened - still in run level 3. I tried ...
You need to look in the logs to see what's going on..
I re-booted. Nothing in dmesg, but
journalctl -b | grep -i -e "multi-user" -e "graphical" -e "nvidia"
gives 70 lines. Here are the first 8 :
Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd[1]: Queued start job for default target
graphical.target.
Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[410]: Error running install command
'modprobe nvidia-modeset ; modprobe -i nvidia-current-drm ' for module
nvidia_drm: retcode 1
Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[410]: Failed to insert module
'nvidia_drm': Invalid argument
Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[439]: modprobe: FATAL: Module
nvidia-current not found in directory /lib/modules/6.12.90+deb13.1-amd64
Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[437]: modprobe: ERROR: Error running
install command 'modprobe -i nvidia-current ' for module nvidia: retcode 1
Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[437]: modprobe: ERROR: could not
insert 'nvidia': Invalid argument
Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[440]: modprobe: FATAL: Module
nvidia-current-modeset not found in directory
/lib/modules/6.12.90+deb13.1-amd64
Jun 20 10:43:51 titan systemd-modules-load[435]: modprobe: ERROR: Error running
install command 'modprobe nvidia ; modprobe -i nvidia-current-modeset ' for
module nvidia_modeset: retcode 1
I'd try
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/cant-get-nvidia-driver-to-work-on-deabian-13-rt-laptop/353618.
I would start by purging the nouveau driver if not already done.
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John Doe
