Some months ago I posted a problem where one machine I have was hanging
after sitting idle for several days. I recently upgraded that machine
from Xubuntu 18 to 20. In the process I removed the nVidia card that was
in it. The only reason I had the nVidia card was from many years back
when I was running MythTV, and the MythTV folks recommended nVidia. I
haven't run MythTV since sometime in 2016. I decided to pull the nVidia
card and just use the onboard video. The machine is Lenovo
ThinkCentre-M58p. Since that upgrade on December 1, 2020, I've had the
machine running 24/7, and use it at least twice a week connected to the
living room TV. It hasn't hung in all that time.
So, my conclusion is that the nVidia card and the onboard video had a
minor disagreement resulting in a stalemate. I took the nVidia card out
of another of my machines, ENU-1, that I've upgraded to Xubuntu 20. It's
been running since December 22, 2020 with no problems. I have one more
nVidia card in this machine, ENU-2, and I'll pull it when I upgrade it,
probably in a few months, after I get ENU-1 stable and am using it as my
main desktop machine.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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