On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 10:52, Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my experience the only reliable open source drivers are the > ones for Intel, and Intel doesn't make a stand alone video > card, just on board video for Intel motherboards. > > For several releases now I've given the nouveau drivers a chance > on each new fedora install, and within a week (usually within > two hours) I've had the desktop freeze up hard, so I install the > rpmfusion binary nvidia drivers and never have any more trouble. > There was a series of kernels for which nouveau drivers with many older Nvidia cards would freeze as you describe. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976788 upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/-/issues/14 For Fedora, 5.8.18 was the last kernel that worked. Patches are available and expected to be integrated into 5.11 kernels. I just installed 5.11.0-0.rc6.141.vanilla.1.fc33.x86_64 and it has gone an hour without a crash. -- George N. White III
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