Re: [PLUG] trying to simplify my Linux operating system graphics components

2022-09-09 Thread Vince Winter
Hello, Additional side note on zoom. You can run it just through the browser instead of their application. You get most of the same features. pwa.zoom.us Just when joining a meeting it will ask to launch the app but below there is a launch in browser option. They are actually discontinuing the

Re: [PLUG] trying to simplify my Linux operating system graphics components

2022-09-08 Thread American Citizen
To all: It's been a really bumpy ride activating the appropriate video drivers for my Nvidia GEForce 710T vga card. Here's what lsmod shows now owner@localhost:~> lsmod | grep nv nvidia_drm 69632  6 nvidia_modeset   1204224  16 nvidia_drm nvidia_uvm   1130496  0

Re: [PLUG] trying to simplify my Linux operating system graphics components

2022-09-07 Thread King Beowulf
On 9/6/22 17:30, American Citizen wrote: > Hi all: ... > 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

Re: [PLUG] trying to simplify my Linux operating system graphics components

2022-09-07 Thread Cy
On Wed, 7 Sep 2022 07:03:37 -0700 Michael Barnes wrote: > There are all kinds of strange horror stories about weird things happening > to computers during Zoom meetings. People have experienced configuration > changes, unusual file uploads and downloads, spyware, hacked bank accounts, > stolen

Re: [PLUG] trying to simplify my Linux operating system graphics components

2022-09-07 Thread Michael Barnes
There are all kinds of strange horror stories about weird things happening to computers during Zoom meetings. People have experienced configuration changes, unusual file uploads and downloads, spyware, hacked bank accounts, stolen information, etc. There have been several FBI investigations into

Re: [PLUG] trying to simplify my Linux operating system graphics components

2022-09-06 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Tue, Sep 6, 2022, 20:30 American Citizen wrote: > Hi all: > > . I use openSuSE for decades by now and I have no clue. I once had similar trouble, over and over fighting with Nvidia. In the end I swore, no more, and kept it by using Intel graphics and now AMD. That kept me out of the trouble

Re: [PLUG] trying to simplify my Linux operating system graphics components

2022-09-06 Thread Robert Citek
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

[PLUG] trying to simplify my Linux operating system graphics components

2022-09-06 Thread American Citizen
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