Anybody know what's up with my NVIDIA video card driver issue in Linux?

[IdidAthing]

4 minutes ago, finest feck fips said:

Ok, having the distro that actually works right installed is best, since it will let us identify a known-good configuration that you can then reproduce on whatever distro you like.

You mind pinging me about this on Monday?

Also what's the broken bootloader stuff you've witnessed? Is it to do with booting multiple distros with one EFI partition? If so, the issue is likely that some distros use the same names for their EFI images and/or variables as one another. If your motherboard won't freak out and/or you aren't running Windows, you can work around this by creating multiple ESPs on the same physical disk. Then you can have, e.g., Pop!_OS and Ubuntu live happily on the same disk. (Pop!_OS and Ubuntu may actually no longer conflict since Pop!_OS now has a different default bootloader than Ubuntu does, but the same idea applies broadly.)

It has to do with grub showing up but it doesn't give me any boot options, it is just blank

[dragonfly43]

On 12/1/2021 at 12:18 AM, IdidAthing said:

Are you talking about the Nvidia X Server Settings? That was available within ubuntu and Pop OS once I installed the proprietary drivers.

No.

For MX, click on the Main Menu, then type 'nvidia' in the search bar, you will see 2 options, one for the Nvidia Installer, another for the Settings.

For Puppy it's in the QuickPet.

[IdidAthing]

54 minutes ago, dragonfly43 said:

No.

For MX, click on the Main Menu, then type 'nvidia' in the search bar, you will see 2 options, one for the Nvidia Installer, another for the Settings.

For Puppy it's in the QuickPet.

okay thanks

[IdidAthing]

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55 minutes ago, dragonfly43 said:

No.

For MX, click on the Main Menu, then type 'nvidia' in the search bar, you will see 2 options, one for the Nvidia Installer, another for the Settings.

For Puppy it's in the QuickPet.

I'll try those two out. I just have to wait until I get some editing done on my pc to finish up a project

[IdidAthing]

4 hours ago, finest feck fips said:

Ok, having the distro that actually works right installed is best, since it will let us identify a known-good configuration that you can then reproduce on whatever distro you like.

You mind pinging me about this on Monday?

Also what's the broken bootloader stuff you've witnessed? Is it to do with booting multiple distros with one EFI partition? If so, the issue is likely that some distros use the same names for their EFI images and/or variables as one another. If your motherboard won't freak out and/or you aren't running Windows, you can work around this by creating multiple ESPs on the same physical disk. Then you can have, e.g., Pop!_OS and Ubuntu live happily on the same disk. (Pop!_OS and Ubuntu may actually no longer conflict since Pop!_OS now has a different default bootloader than Ubuntu does, but the same idea applies broadly.)

yeah I can message you monday

[skedarwarrior]

Sadly, nvidia doesn't really like open source and will not open source their drivers or provide much help even schematics, also their drivers are bad too, either something before 2013 intel or something amd with open source drivers is probably for the better.

[D-reaper]

6 hours ago, skedarwarrior said:

Sadly, nvidia doesn't really like open source and will not open source their drivers or provide much help even schematics, also their drivers are bad too, either something before 2013 intel or something amd with open source drivers is probably for the better.


 

This is what I've been saying. For this reason, it's not a surprised that Valve is going all AMD with their Steam Deck either; because they know Nvidia has got crap support for Linux now.

[IdidAthing]

On 12/3/2021 at 4:37 PM, finest feck fips said:

Ok, having the distro that actually works right installed is best, since it will let us identify a known-good configuration that you can then reproduce on whatever distro you like.

You mind pinging me about this on Monday?

Also what's the broken bootloader stuff you've witnessed? Is it to do with booting multiple distros with one EFI partition? If so, the issue is likely that some distros use the same names for their EFI images and/or variables as one another. If your motherboard won't freak out and/or you aren't running Windows, you can work around this by creating multiple ESPs on the same physical disk. Then you can have, e.g., Pop!_OS and Ubuntu live happily on the same disk. (Pop!_OS and Ubuntu may actually no longer conflict since Pop!_OS now has a different default bootloader than Ubuntu does, but the same idea applies broadly.)

Dang, I forgot to get back. I'm so sorry. I was just going to let you know. I think I'm going to take a break for a while. I might give up or I might come back to the forum some time around. But I've had a project I need to work on on my computer for a while and I need to get it done.

On 12/3/2021 at 4:37 PM, finest feck fips said:

 

[finest feck fips]

On 12/15/2021 at 8:27 PM, IdidAthing said:

Dang, I forgot to get back. I'm so sorry. I was just going to let you know. I think I'm going to take a break for a while. I might give up or I might come back to the forum some time around. But I've had a project I need to work on on my computer for a while and I need to get it done.

No worries, dude. Taking your existing grab bag of hardware and hoping it'll work with an OS that the manufacturers may not adequately support is always a gamble and often a pain. Good luck with your projects!