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Author: Peter Duffy
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Subject: Re: [DNG] daedalus upgrade
Thanks for that. Yes, I think I'll give a Radeon card a try. Although
it's annoying that the current card was fine with chimaera and beowulf.
The obvious difference is that I'm using the apt-installed driver: I
might try the NVidia native driver before doing anything else.


On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 17:55 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Peter Duffy said on Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:16:01 +0100
>
>
> > If the best fix might be to get a new graphics card, I'm open to
> > suggestions and recommendations.
>
> Any non-nvidia card would be a huge improvement. There's a reason
> Linux
> gave the finger to nvidia: They don't open-source their drivers, so
> we
> have to make due with reengineering. nvidia video cards are known to
> cause hardware level freezes and spontaneous reboots.
>
> I've had great luck with a Radeon, on a computer that froze with
> nvidea.
>
>
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