Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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Mark Knecht wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 4:01 PM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com
> <mailto:rdalek1967@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > I think the rig and video card are fine.  I did try a different card
> and version of nvidia drivers once tho.  Same thing.  At first, I
> tried the nouveau drivers.  All the bootable media uses that driver. 
> When I tried it on my install, it was very slow and the mouse pointer
> was very jerky.  It was horrible.  I removed those drivers and
> installed nvidia.  Sadly, things got worse.
> >
> > I'll boot into Kubuntu again and see what info it has.  The ones I
> attached tho is all there was. Either it doesn't have those files or
> the files were blank.  I think Xorg and messages was all there was.
> >
> > I'm out of steam.  May boot Kubuntu and let it sit while I nap.  It
> worked for several minutes last time tho.  It seemed to work fine. 
> Very fast too, unlike on my install.
> >
>
> Yeah, I can hear the frustration and weariness in your writing.
> However I know you are up to fixing this.
>
> One additional experiment you can do, and I suspect Kubuntu passes
> every time, is boot the machine with the monitor plugged into each
> port one at a time. Do complete power downs between each boot. If
> Kubuntu comes up it will really tell you a stable, tested OS has
> solved these problems. If it doesn't then that's good info also.
>
> I think possibly you purchased a Quadro adapter? I don't know how
> popular those are amongst this crowd but they have been very popular
> in business settings. That might make a bigger difference in terms of
> the nvidia driver vs the Open Source one.
>
> Good luck with your machine,
> Mark


I admit, I'm thinking about unplugging the thing and sticking it in the
closet.  If nothing else, I'm tired of walking around this huge thing. 
I was hoping to have switched long ago.  Usually, I look forward and
even get excited to build a new rig.  This time, with the lacking slots
of the original mobo and having to go way down power wise, I just want
to make sure I have a working computer if something happens to my main
rig.  There's not a whole lot to get excited about.  Having it not work,
well, that doesn't help.  Poor Michael is trying to help but this thing
is weird.  With every reboot, it does something differently. 

On the Kubuntu test.  I started with what the bracket shows as port 1. 
I then went through each port until I got to port 4.  I rebooted in
between each switch.  Even unplugged the monitor.  It worked every
time.  During the booting of the image tho, there was several seconds
where the screen went weird.  It had these horizontal lines on it that
looked like stair steps.  I've seen this type of thing on other boot
media even with my main rig and the NAS box.  It's like the image is in
the process of loading drivers or something.  Anyway, once it came up
tho, rock solid. 

I checked the nvidia website three times now.  Still, I wonder, am I
using the wrong driver?  Would the wrong driver even load without a
nasty message somewhere that is obvious?  The Nvidia website shows this:


Version:                     550.90.07
Release Date:             2024.6.4
Operating System:     Linux 64-bit
Language:                 English (US)
File Size:                   293.33 MB

I tried that series and the earlier version as well.  Hard to believe
that both versions would fail the same way due to a bug.  If someone
wants to double check, Nvidia Quadro P1000 is the info.  Even if the
selection tool is wrong, it shows up under supported products, for both
desktops and laptops. 

I may try to the Nouveau driver thing again.  Instead of building it
into the kernel, I may try the tree version.  Maybe it will work better
than the one in the kernel.  One can hope.  Right now, I'm trying to
sort through a massive update on my main rig.  Something broke eix. 
o_O  I managed to update the config files.  Broke my prompt tho.  I need
a hammer.  :/

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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