On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 3:15 PM Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote: > > On Saturday, 29 June 2024 21:30:59 BST Dale wrote: > > I booted the rig up and decided to try something. Once it was booted, I > > logged in from my main rig via ssh. I then typed in the command to > > start DM. It started and looked OK. Then I just up arrow and changed > > it to restart the DM. I restarted DM back to back several times, more > > than a dozen. Sometimes it wouldn't work, sometimes it would be low > > resolution and sometimes it would come up and look like it should, hi > > res and all. I also tried logging in when it was working and I could > > login. The biggest thing I noticed, it never came up fully. Most of > > the time it came up in hi res but no plasma. A few times it was a low > > res screen and no plasma. Looked like maybe 720P or less. > > > > The thing is, it didn't fully come up even once. It was always lacking > > plasma at least. Some of the time, it was low res. Several times, the > > monitor would go black and cut off completely. It would go to sleep. > > If the new monitor works, I'm thinking Micheal is right. The monitor > > works with slower systems and the nouveau drivers on boot media. With > > Nvidia on the install, hit or miss, mostly miss. I think it has only > > worked fully twice. > > I think after all these attempts you have proven this monitor with this nvidia > card just won't work on its own, unless and until you try changing the > "Monitor" settings as I suggested in my previous message, or extract, store > and feed the monitor's EDID file to your card. > > However, you have your hands full and may want to leave this for now and wait > for the next larger and more modern monitor to show up. Hopefully that will > work better! :-)
He certainly does have his hands full! I'm confused. (a standard state of being for me...) I thought Dale reported that he installed Kubuntu on an SSD - or did we just talk about that idea - and he said all the port problems were ironed out with the open source driver. What he didn't report was if he installed the nvidia-drivers in Kubuntu. I personally wouldn't write off the 'old monitor' until doing at least that. sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade ubuntu-drivers list (make sure the video-card is found) sudo apt install nvidia-drivers-550 (assuming he has a Quadro P1000 from memory) reboot Shouldn't take more than 5-10 minutes to try. No real risk as he's going to blow away the Kubuntu install anyway.
