Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-05-10 Thread David Christensen
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-

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-05 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 05.01.2021 08:47, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-04 09:14, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: "xrandr" utility should help you with diagnostics and setup: $ xrandr -q Thank you for the reply.  :-) 2021-01-04 19:22:57 root@dipsy ~ # xrandr -q Can't open display You have to run it as

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-05 Thread Darac Marjal
On 05/01/2021 08:27, Felix Miata wrote: > Andrei POPESCU composed on 2021-01-05 09:14 (UTC+0200): > >> David Christensen wrote: >>> Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: "xrandr" utility should help you with diagnostics and setup:     $ xrandr -q > $ xrandr | wc -l > 17 > $ xrandr -q | wc -l >

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-05 Thread Felix Miata
Andrei POPESCU composed on 2021-01-05 09:14 (UTC+0200): > David Christensen wrote: >> Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >>> "xrandr" utility should help you with diagnostics and setup: >>>     $ xrandr -q $ xrandr | wc -l 17 $ xrandr -q | wc -l 17 $ xrandr | wc -c 706 $ xrandr -q | wc -c I have no

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 04 ian 21, 19:47:18, David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-01-04 09:14, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > > > > "xrandr" utility should help you with diagnostics and setup: > >     $ xrandr -q > > 2021-01-04 19:22:57 root@dipsy ~ > # xrandr -q > Can't open display The '$' in the post above

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-04 Thread Felix Miata
David Christensen composed on 2021-01-04 19:47 (UTC-0800): > And a new issue: > Xfce -> Settings -> Display -> Resolution now only offers three choices: > 1024x768 > 800x600 > 640x480 > The laptop has a 1920x1080 screen. The external monitor is 1920x1080. > The nouveau driver was able to driv

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-04 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-04 09:14, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 04.01.2021 09:31, David Christensen wrote: Reboot -- boots okay -- login manager displayed -- login okay -- Xfce desktop okay -- external monitor not getting signal. Xfce -> Settings -> Display only lists one monitor "default": Reso

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-04 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 04.01.2021 09:31, David Christensen wrote: Reboot -- boots okay -- login manager displayed -- login okay -- Xfce desktop okay -- external monitor not getting signal. Xfce -> Settings -> Display only lists one monitor "default": Resolution    1920x1080 (or 640x480) Refresh rat

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-03 Thread David Wright
On Sun 03 Jan 2021 at 15:41:26 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-01-03 06:51, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > On 03.01.2021 02:52, David Christensen wrote: > > > > > > Any suggestions for trouble-shooting the crashes? > > > > > Have you checked the systemd journal? > > Even after you

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-01 15:51, David Christensen wrote: 2021-01-01 12:18:31 root@dipsy ~ # lspci 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [NVS 4200M] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1) On 2021-01-03 17:43, Alexander V. Maka

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-03 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 04.01.2021 04:41, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-03 06:51, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 03.01.2021 02:52, David Christensen wrote: Any suggestions for trouble-shooting the crashes? Have you checked the systemd journal? Even after you reboot frozen system you can see last syslog m

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
(Re-ordered for clarity.) On 2021-01-03 04:01, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 01:52:47PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-02 05:23, Darac Marjal wrote: On 01/01/2021 23:51, David Christensen wrote: I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics: I h

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-03 06:51, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 03.01.2021 02:52, David Christensen wrote: Any suggestions for trouble-shooting the crashes? Have you checked the systemd journal? Even after you reboot frozen system you can see last syslog messages easily from previous boot with this co

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-03 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 03.01.2021 02:52, David Christensen wrote: Any suggestions for trouble-shooting the crashes? Have you checked the systemd journal? Even after you reboot frozen system you can see last syslog messages easily from previous boot with this command:     $ sudo journalctl -b -1 Journald keeps

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 05:23, Darac Marjal wrote: Thanks for the reply. :-) On 01/01/2021 23:51, David Christensen wrote: I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus I have disabled Optimus in the CMOS Setup: Video -> Optimus -> Enabl

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On 01/01/2021 23:51, David Christensen wrote: > debian-users: > > I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus > > > STFW and RTFM: > > https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA%20Optimus > > -> Using only the integrated GPU > > https://wiki.debi