Does booting with blacklist=vga16fb nouveau.noaccel=1 work correctly? You won't get a nice transition from plymouth to X with that but X should work with nouveau and it will help narrow down where the problem is.
Does booting with blacklist=vga16fb nouveau.noaccel=1 work correctly? You won't get a nice transition from plymouth to X with that but X should work with nouveau and it will help narrow down where the problem is.