Re: [PLUG] Tshooting

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 01:15:19AM -0500, Steve Litt via plug wrote:
> jeff via plug said on Thu, 1 Dec 2022 23:22:21 -0500
> 
> >This laptop freezes. I have temp monitors to see if that causes it. 
> >Doesn't seem to. Tried changing NVIDIA driver for fun. Nope. Ran 
> >memtest. Pass. Canned air, reseat mem, cursing a lot, all failed. It 
> >seizes under load or not.
> 
> The Daily Driver Desktop (DDD) I'm using right now started out with an
> Nvidia video card. Intermittent freezes. Changing nVidia drivers made
> subtle changes, but it still froze. If I left it running overnight
> doing nothing, it froze.
> 
> The solution turned out to be replacing the nVidia with a Radeon, and
> my computer became rock stable. There's a reason Linus gave the middle
> finger to nVidia:

While I don't know what the solution to Jeff's problem is, he said
he's running a laptop so swapping out the GPU it probably not possible.

> https://www.wired.com/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/

This was over a decade ago. I've been using nvidia on my home
workstation for 6 years and my work workstation for 3. The only
problem I've ever had is that I need to reboot when the driver gets
updated. Aside from that the drivers have been rock solid.

Walt
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