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Some time around when Spectre/Meltdown were announced, I started |
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experiencing similar problems. I don't know "what's wrong" because so |
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far I have found no answers. |
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The best I can offer at this point is that on my system, it seems that |
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it will work with Nouveau drivers much better than the system currently |
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works with NVIDIA drivers. |
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Unfortunately, I haven't managed to get a working version of that yet, |
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but I usually only manage to put a few hours a week on trying to figure |
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it out. |
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I fortunately haven't had the problem that I have to kill power to the |
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computer, though I think I have gone through some times I have needed to |
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reboot, rather than just get back into X either through killing |
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processes, or (very rarely) stopping one problematic process which is |
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the source. |
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On 03/18/2018 09:40 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> Gentlemen, we have a problem... |
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> Okay, ~ a week ago there was a power outage at my place, everything goes |
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> down for a day or two. I had recently refreshed my UPS batteries, so I |
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> had a chance to put that into the circuit, no biggy. |
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> Since nobody will offer me a job, I was playing Kerbal space program yet |
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> again. (not even Don Corleone could get me a job at this point, I |
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> frequently joke about the horse head trick but, seriously, I don't think |
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> even that would work...) |
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> So, after all of two and a half days of uptime, nvidia drivers takes |
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> x'-doze down. |
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> I was like "Ok, fine, I'll do a maintenance cycle on my machine and all |
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> will be good..." |
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> So I update the bios, update the kernel, update portage, flush a few |
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> dead packages down the memory hole... Ok, my system was in shape again... |
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> So, I'm back in kerbal, another day or two goes by, I'm sitting there |
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> trying to figure out whether I have enough room in my departure corridor |
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> to slot in a contract mission to Jool.. I wasn't even sitting down, just |
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> poking around in my kitchen. When I got back, the game was frozen. I had |
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> to log in with my PoS laptop which is useful only for this task. I found |
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> that KSP, and X'doze were live-locked, presumably on a Nvidia-drivers |
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> bug. =( I tried killing off KSP but it ended up going zombie... I tried |
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> killing off parent processes, no luck, I then tried shutting down the |
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> machine the normal way, no good. I eventually ended up going to the |
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> dusty 28 year old power commander thing and throwing the big orange |
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> switch labelled COMPUTER (complete and instantaneous removal of power). |
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> What's going on here? Nvidia drivers have been stable for years... |
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> what's the deal? =\ |
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