Hi David,
Quoting David Lecompte (2022-01-25 12:38:02) > Le lundi 24 janvier 2022 à 08:46 +0100, Tanguy LE CARROUR a écrit : > > Everything works as expected on my Thinkpad T200. The problem is with > > my > > Viking D8… that uses the nVIDIA driver! Do you think it could be > > related? > > I am using a Vikings D8 with Trisquel 9 + Guix and Debian 11 + Guix, I > can see Grub menu but only in text > mode. https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/kcma-d8.html says only text- > mode is known to work (my D8 has coreboot but I suppose the problem is > the same). I have a GeForce GT-710 but I suspect that it isn't used at > the time Grub is loaded. Vikings told me a non-free blob would be > needed to have graphical GRUB display. > > In Trisquel, I had set GRUB_TERMINAL=console in /etc/default/grub. > > In Debian, I did not set anything manually, I don't know how text mode > is selected. Good to know. Thanks for sharing! Good thing is that I'm perfectly OK living with GRUB's text mode! :-) > By the way, with nouveau I have regular system freezes with Trisquel 9 > (logs show issues with stack in nouveau, can happen more than once a > day), while with Debian 11 and Mate, I only rarely (once a month or > less) have the Mate session disconnected (apparently, X server was > restarted). > > Perhaps this wasn't the main question, but in case it could help. Indeed, it's not related to this question, but it's totally related to my next one! :-) […updating the thread's subject…] I've had the very same "system freezes" problem since the very beginning (I'm using Bspwm window manager on a Guix System, btw). It mostly happens when I'm using graphical applications: Libreoffice, Grisbi and Icecat on some JS-heavy pages (visiting Gitlab issues, most of the time). When it freezes, I cannot switch to a different workspace and the applications on the current workspace stop responding… but the pointer moves normally and music keeps on playing for a few minutes. I don't know if it's possible to disable Nouveau entirely or to use the proprietary/evil driver, just to make sure Nouveau actually causes the issue. Even if it only happens 2 or 3 times a month, any fix would be welcome! Regards, -- Tanguy
