Mystery logoff

[R C]

On 2/4/22 23:46, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On 2022-02-05 01:32, R C wrote:
>> well there are nvidia drivers for some recent cards that you can use. 
>> It used to be the case that when you upgraded to a new kernel you had 
>> to recompile the driver.
>>
>> A year or two back I noticed that when installing on another machine, 
>> then moved the drive, I could avoid the issue (so it seemed like a 
>> configuration issue ?). Also I noticed
>>
>> the issue happens with ubuntu/debian machines, never had that issue 
>> with RHEL/Centos.
>
> Yeah I think you can install the drivers directly from Ubuntu if you 
> enable third party sources.
true, if you know what drivers are needed.
>
> In the GUI installer it's under the additional drivers tab, you can 
> switch from nouveau, to Nvidia proprietary.
>
> Or:
> apt search nvidia-driver
> or
> apt-cache search nvidia-driver
>
> and then
> sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-number
I haven't done that recently
>
> I'm too used to Debian where proprietary drivers are much more frowned 
> at :)

Well I use headless servers, with X11 forwarding...   and use 
workstations with recent graphics cards.   drivers in Linux has always 
been tricky,  but a lot better then it used to be.


Ron


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