On 19.09.2021 16:22, Roger Price wrote:
My Nvidia NVS 310 card with the nvidia 390.144 driver starts off
perfectly, but after two days freezes: no reaction to keyboard or
mouse action.
Have you tried to run some benchmarks to force the issue? By doing that
you could reveal some potential problem with inadequate cooling or
problems of electrical nature.
It is quite old hardware so it is hard to tell for sure. There could be
myriad reasons why it freezes, ranging from faulty capacitors on
motherboard and VGA to a faulty PSU.
I still have nouveau present. dpkg-query -l | grep nouveau reports:
ii libdrm-nouveau2:amd64 2.4.104-1 amd64 Userspace interface
to nouveau-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime
ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.17-1 amd64 X.Org X server --
Nouveau display driver
Doesn't matter if you have 'nouveau' installed, since proprietary nvidia
driver blacklists it for you upon installation.
Any suggestion or hint for avoiding this freeze would be much
appreciated.
It looks like a hardware problem to me, even if you say it takes two
days to freeze.
Can you tell us more about your system. Is it laptop or is it stationary
workstation?
Was it working just fine before you upgraded to 'bullseye' (ver 5.10
kernel)?
Have you tried to force reinstall 'nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-dkms'
package after kernel was updated to ver 5.10?
It is a good practice to rebuild dkms module after major kernel version
upgrade using new kernel source files.
I'd test the VGA with live Linux OS or with test Windows installation,
just to out-rule the possible hardware problems.
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With kindest regards, Alexander.
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