nouveau going off the deep end...

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2022 at 22:33, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> (I can ssh in
> from another computer, but /sbin/reboot does not work).

Well what does it do?

Does Ctrl-Alt-Del on the console work?

> (And no, I am not going to download and install NVIDIA's video driver.)

Why not?

> How do I turn off the compositor?  Do I need it?

Depends. What desktop are you using?

GNOME 3, Cinnamon and Unity require it. You can't disable it. All are
written as plugins to OpenGL Compositors and cannot function without
one.

In KDE it's optional but in my experience makes no difference.

In MATE, LXDE, LXQt and Xfce it's optional and can be disabled, and
things work fine without it.

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