On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 02:05:51PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Peter Duffy said on Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:44:28 +0100
>
> >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.
>
> By all means try the NVidia native driver from NVidia itself. It might
> solve your problems.

NVidia doesn't seem to be fast at keeping up with kernel changes.
And with closed-source drivers no on else can do it either.
You may find your drivers work better with an old kernel.

-- hendrik

>
> In my case, although the NVidia provided driver lessened or eliminated
> the freezes, it produced all sorts of video artifacts that interfered
> with my reading my screen. Also, you need to get rid of every single
> vestige of the Free Software drivers to get the commercial drivers to
> work, and that involves quite a bit more than removing one package. I
> think you were supposed to remove two packages and blacklist one or
> more drivers. There were just a lot of variables involved.
>
> SteveT
>
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