On Monday 20 September 2021 11:58:02 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Mon Sep 20 08:42:33 2021 "Alexander V. Makartsev" > <avbe...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > 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 was having similar problems with an old nVidia card (GeForce 630). > A friend gave me an ATI card to try. Although I never did get his > card to work, I did discover that my old card was in rough shape > physically. The fan had broken down, and the cooling fins on the > heat sink were full of dust bunnies. There wasn't much I could do > for the fan, but I gave the heat sink a thorough cleaning and put > the card back in. It's been running for over a week now with no > problems, where before it was locking up every day or two. >
Fans can be replaced, there are vendors on ebay selling better quality replacements if you shop carefully. > >> 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. > > On earlier versions of Debian (I'm currently running Buster), > I was having trouble with the nouveau driver locking up. > Replacing it with nVidia's proprietary driver corrected > that problem, so I've been wary of nouveau ever since. > But if your graphics card overheats, it doesn't matter > which driver you're running. :-) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
