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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 2:13 PM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
> I've tried to use nvidia-settings but the man page is like Greek.  The
one thing I did figure out, -q all.  On my main rig, it spits out TONS of
info.  On the new rig, it just says something like no display found or
something.  It's like two lines, maybe one.
>
> Had several interruptions so managed to try Kubuntu "Try" option.  It
comes up just fine, correct resolution, plasma is working and all.  I'm
attaching the Xorg log from Kubuntu.
>
> Maybe the Kubuntu log will shed some light.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

OK, so if Kubuntu comes up and runs stable for an hour or two then I don't
think it's your new rig or monitor.

I have a suspicion that Kubuntu booted and loaded the Open Source driver
and not the nvidia driver, but that's just a guess. However, if that's the
case then you can almost certainly use whatever Kubuntu has used as far as
drivers and an xorg.conf file and see if that helps with your Gentoo
issues. Once you get Gentoo working with the Open Source driver then you
could investigate using nvidia's.

If you have time to let the machine soak awhile then I'd consider a reboot
into Kubuntu and then take a look at what drivers are loaded using lsmod.
There will likely be a huge list. I have a 2 year old machine that's not
unlike your new machine (yours is slightly more powerful I think) but the
list of drivers loaded is just huge. However it works, and once you get it
going with lots of drivers you can then rebuild things with them in the
kernel if you want to.

Anyway, look at lsmod and report back. Here's mine running Kubuntu, and I
have no xorg.conf but it runs fine with 3 monitors.

mark@science2:~$ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_uvm           1789952  0
nvidia_drm             90112  16
nvidia_modeset       1314816  39 nvidia_drm
nvidia              56827904  1890 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
video                  73728  2 asus_wmi,nvidia_modeset
mark@science2:~$

Good luck,
Mark

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