Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 2:41 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com > <mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > <SNIP> > > Doing that was actually not much trouble. I booted, changed > something just in case it rebooted and went back for some reason but > would change something on the screen. Usually, I change the page on > the KDE welcome screen to like page 4 or something. If it were to > restart the GUI or anything, it would go back to page 1. Anyway, once > booted, I'd go do something else for a while. Then when I came back, > shutdown, change port and repeat. > > > > To Micheal's point tho, I suspect the boot media I'm using is slow > enough, loading from a USB stick instead of a m.2 drive, that it also > is able to get the info needed, most likely from the monitor, and work > like it should. This could literally be a system that is just going > to fast. By the time the monitor gets the request, the computer has > already moved on except for those rare occasions where it works. > > > > I have a 2.5" SSD drive. I actually mounted it in the system > already just not hooked up to power or data cables. I could install > Kubuntu on that easily. If I get the steam up, I just may do that. > Between working on this new build, my sis-n-law being sick, I just had > to much going on for to long. Just a bit ago I walked up a very steep > hill to take watermelons in the house for her. I can walk up faster > than I can drive up. No other powered vehicle I can use. Car and > feet is all I got. Still, that walk up the hill and carrying > watermelons up the steps took my energy level down a few more > notches. Thank goodness for my meds. At least my back isn't so angry > at me. > > > > I just hope this new monitor works out of the box, and doesn't get > damaged in shipping. ;-) > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > > > P. S. I'm pretty sure the recent upgrade put my main rig on KDE6. > I had some clashes with lxqt or something to the point I uninstalled > it, did the KDE update and then added lxqt? back. I still had to work > out some issues. So far, it is working OK. No problems or anything > except for losing my weather thingy on the bottom panel. I'm sure > that will be updated soon. May do the same on the new rig if I get > time. Not that I can test it or anything tho. LOL > > My point about putting KDE on a drive and really running it is that > you can install all the non-standard drivers, which NVidia is part of, > which I'm not sure is totally supported when running in the Try It > mode from boot media. Once installed and booted from the SSD then > really use the system and figure out what's going on with these ports. > There is still a small possibility in my mind that this is something > about Quadro cards which were designed for a different market and that > possibly haven't been as well tested in the consumer or Gentoo arena. > > You have a lot going on so ask questions if you need me. I'm always > lurking around somewhere. > > Cheers, > Mark
I got up a little steam. I hooked up the SSD drive and installed Kubuntu which went very fast. It seems all those SSD type drives are really fast. Anyway, when I booted up the first time, it went straight to KDE and it was like it should be, resolution, plasma and all. Kubuntu isn't half bad. I just like a source based distro. Since it uses the nouveau drivers tho, I'm not to surprised it worked. If they had worked this well on Gentoo, I would have used them. Thing was awful tho. I'll search around and see if I can figure out how to switch to nvidia drivers. I figured out how to install the software to install software. That sounds weird. :/ Anyway, I found the nvidia drivers but wasn't sure what to do after they were installed. There is no xorg.conf file. I also tried to get some log info, all I found was Xorg and sddm. We agree that sddm is working. The Xorg file looked like one I posted from something else. Not sure it would help to post that monster. That's the update for now. May work on it more later on. Dale :-) :-)
