On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 10:08:10 -0700 Thomas Groman <[email protected]> dijo:
>I would recommend going on the AMD side of things for graphics cards at >least until Nvidia stops making their cards only run with signed blobs. That is an interesting comment. For several years now I have been using a System76 laptop with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 765M, currently with Xubuntu 14.04, up to date. I don't need anything special for a video driver, and I prefer open source, so right from the beginning I set it up with the nouveau driver. But for the past year I have been having issues with it booting to a default resolution (640 x 480, I think). I would have to reboot until eventually it would come up correctly. That is, until I applied some updates before going to the Clinic yesterday. At the Clinic it would not let me log in - I'd enter my password and it would just cycle back to the login screen. Ctrl-Alt-F1 got me to a command line, and there I was able to log in. Wes helped me with a lot of suggestions and we worked on it for a couple hours, without much luck. (A long saga not worth the telling.) In the end I installed the Nvidia proprietary driver from the Ubuntu repos, and all my video issues went away. I'm curious what signed blobs are, and if that might have been what caused the nouveau driver to misbehave. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
