[jepster]

A workaround for the need for multiple restarts in case of startup after an new start of the laptop, is simply to "never" fully shut down the laptop. Instead the laptop can go into sleep mode. So the operating systems stays booted and there is no struggle with the Nouveau driver at startup.

However.. the nature of a laptop is it's mobility purpose. If I disconnect my laptop from the docking station and connect the docking station again, the system freezes. Afterwards the restart struggle begins anew.

For this I suggest to switch to the proprietary Nvidia driver (e.g. at traveling). Because nvidia's own driver has no startup issues like the open-source reverse engineered Nouveau driver. I assume that the issue is tied to laptops with a cpu graphical component and an external graphics card from Nvidia like mine.

If anybody knows how the Nouveau issue can be solved "clean": please share..