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 2:13 PM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com
> <mailto: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


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. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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