In the vein of not answering the question but instead making a side comment, I always connect to a video conference ( Zoom, Jitsi, Google Meet, etc. ) with at least two different devices: my smart phone and a laptop. They also are via two different data paths: cell and Ethernet. In the event one goes down, I can let people know with the other device. That doesn’t happen often, but it’s nice to have that fallback when it does.
Regards, - Robert On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 6:30 PM American Citizen <website.read...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all: > > Yesterday, I was in a key Zoom meeting with a person, talking for about > 10 mins, setting up the interview, when BOOM!, the openSuse linx Leap > 15.4 system suddenly dropped down to initlevel 3 and all the graphics > screens were erased. (later investigations showed the xserver software > was actually scrubbed from my active OS and I had to do a reinstall of > the xserver software) > > My system is 64 bit, Linux localhost 5.14.21-150400.24.18-default #1 SMP > PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Aug 4 14:17:48 UTC 2022 (e9f7bfc) x86_64 x86_64 > x86_64 GNU/Linux openSuse system, at current levels. > > After this mysterious crash, I decided to look at the state of graphics > drivers for my Nvidia GEForce series 710 graphics card which is the only > graphics card I have. > > Unfortunately lsmod shows that nouveau graphics driver is active, and > even though I enabled the Nvidia G06 drivers > > lsmod shows: Reading installed packages... > > S | Name | Summary | Type > > ---+-----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------- > i+ | nvidia-computeG06 | NVIDIA driver for computing with > GPGPU | package > i | nvidia-computeG06-32bit | 32bit NVIDIA driver for computing > with GPGPU | package > i | nvidia-gfxG06-kmp-default | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module > for GeForce 700 series and newer | package > i+ | nvidia-glG06 | NVIDIA OpenGL libraries for OpenGL > acceleration | package > i | nvidia-glG06-32bit | 32bit NVIDIA OpenGL libraries for > OpenGL acceleration | package > i+ | x11-video-nvidiaG06 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce > 700 series and newer | package > i | x11-video-nvidiaG06-32bit | 32bit NVIDIA graphics driver for > GeForce 700 series and newer | package > > Unfortunately, and to me, disconcerting, lsmod does NOT show a single > nvidia mod installed, but rather the nouveau drivers or kernal modules > instead. > > localhost:/home/owner # lsmod | grep nou > nouveau 2351104 4 > video 57344 1 nouveau > drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 nouveau > ttm 81920 2 drm_ttm_helper,nouveau > i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 nouveau > mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau > drm_kms_helper 303104 1 nouveau > drm 630784 8 drm_kms_helper,drm_ttm_helper,ttm,nouveau > wmi 36864 4 hp_wmi,wmi_bmof,mxm_wmi,nouveau > button 24576 1 nouveau > -------------------- > > If I attempt to remove the nouveau kernal modules, the x-server > complains, and expects nouveau to be installed as the PRIMARY video > driver, in fact it demands it!! > > But I only have a lowly GE Force 710 card. (and yes, I installed the > Nvidia software repository so I could install the Nvidia native drivers > for this card and I did install the appropriate G06 drivers according to > Yast2. > > But, and this is really confusing, the KDE desktop alludes to 4 graphics > systems installed: > > egl > glx > vulkan > x-server > > I know that Mesa has some video drivers installed on my system. > > But my question is this, > > How do I get everything down to a simple Nvidia Ge Force 710 graphics > card? (and run the KDE desktop?) > > - Randall > >
