On 1/1/21 3:51 PM, David Christensen wrote:
debian-users:
I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics ...
After a random amount of time (minutes to hours) of watching videos on
YouTube ...
The system will crash ...
Recent upgrades seem to have fixed the problem:
2021-05-02 10:43:16 root@dipsy ~
# apt-get upgrade
...
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt apt-utils bind9-host firefox-esr gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0
gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-gl gstreamer1.0-libav
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio gstreamer1.0-x
libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libbind9-161 libdns-export1104
libdns1104 libgstreamer-gl1.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libisc-export1100 libisc1100 libisccc161
libisccfg163 liblwres161 openjdk-11-jre openjdk-11-jre-headless
thunderbird wpasupplicant xserver-common xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-legacy
Reboot:
2021-05-10 19:37:46 dpchrist@dipsy ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version
10.9
I seem to recall similar experiences with Debian 7 and 9 -- after enough
point releases and package updates, graphics became stable.
HTH,
David
