On 4/26/25 1:23 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/26/25 9:22 AM, home user via users wrote:
(F-42 stand-alone workstation; gnome)
good morning,
My F-42 workstation had 21 mixed crashes in a few hours late
yesterday, and more in a matter of minutes just a few minutes ago. It
was installed yesterday afternoon. It's practically unusable. I'm now
on a windows-10 box (separate hardware, no dual boot).
In my "securing..." thread, Samuel said:
"...Anaconda won't install the proprietary NVidia drivers, so you must
be using nouveau. If it works, then great. If you have issues, you
might want to install the drivers from rpmfusion."
I don't know if the crashes are related to using nouveau, or due to
something else.
I do not game.
The most graphics-intense thing that I do (as far as I know) is watch
youtube videos with a resolution of about 1.4k.
So I'm wondering...
Suppose I remove the graphics card (nvidia GeForce GTX 660; 12 years
old) entirely.
1. What do I lose by going without the graphics card? What are the
risks?
2. Would I have to install Fedora-42 Workstation all over again?
If you boot to a console, you could check the logs from the previous
boots to see what's going wrong. Since you mentioned crashing back to
the login screen, it's probably the graphics card.
What happens if you remove it depends on if you have integrated graphics
on the motherboard. Do you have monitor connectors on the motherboard
ports? If so, you might have integrated graphics. If you don't have
integrated graphics, then you have no monitor if you remove the card.
You could try installing the NVidia driver. I think for your card it's
the "akmod-nvidia-470xx" package. Make sure the compiling is finished
before you reboot.
Removing the card worked. That's evidence, an argument,
not proof,
that the card was bad. I also experienced a lot of crashes while trying
to use Fedora Live Workstation. Again, evidence,
not proof,
of a bad card. I realize that installing the RPM Fusion akmod package
might have solved the problem, But this is (hopefully!) temporary, and
the akmod package has been a lot of trouble in more recent years. So
I'm opting to stick with the card removal for now. But I thank you for
your post. Had I gone for the akmod option, I would have had to ask for
the correct package name. You anticipated my question!
I consider this SOLVED! Thank-you Samuel, Felix, and Jeffrey.
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