Any linux experts here?
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| 1 | Just installed the latest Nvidia graphics drivers on a fresh install of debian and tty7 is no longer available, tty8 and 9 are also not working. nzoomed - 2020-06-27 23:46:00 |
| 2 | https://askubuntu.com/questions/487868/no-tty-after-installi lythande1 - 2020-06-28 08:42:00 |
| 3 | Tried that it it makes no difference, that post seems to be on the right track though, as my resolution in grub and bootup has also lowered. Not sure what has gone wrong, I have tried several other things ive read on other forum posts with no success. nzoomed - 2020-06-28 10:17:00 |
| 4 | edit: nzoomed - 2020-06-28 10:40:00 |
| 5 | Have you tried If its still broken bitsnpieces2020 - 2020-06-28 11:37:00 |
| 6 | Ill try that. All I do know is the driver is working. nzoomed - 2020-06-28 12:05:00 |
| 7 | this is the output i get when trying to run the display manager: [10:41:33.108] (II) DAEMON: Initializing... nzoomed - 2020-06-28 17:37:00 |
| 8 | I've had so much trouble with Nvidia in the last 6 years that I will never again buy a computer with an Nvidia card in it. trade4us2 - 2020-06-28 22:08:00 |
| 9 | what does Edited by bitsnpieces2020 at 8:17 am, Mon 29 Jun bitsnpieces2020 - 2020-06-29 08:17:00 |
| 10 | if its sddm try (will require reboot) Edited by bitsnpieces2020 at 8:19 am, Mon 29 Jun bitsnpieces2020 - 2020-06-29 08:18:00 |
| 11 | Yup it came back as sddm nzoomed - 2020-06-29 11:37:00 |
| 12 | oh bummer, at least its consistent. bitsnpieces2020 - 2020-06-29 13:03:00 |
| 13 | Seeing its already broken, you could break it further with some wayland testing bitsnpieces2020 - 2020-06-29 13:07:00 |
| 14 | Its tempting to do a reinstall, but im trying to learn from this lol linux sucks when things break! nzoomed - 2020-06-29 17:10:00 |
| 15 | I have had not much luck with Debian. Despite it supposed to be the most stable and conservative, it seems to be unstable and keeps hanging on things. I've had the best luck with Xubuntu, I am using Ubuntu studio at the moment as I do music recording. tygertung - 2020-07-02 14:29:00 |
| 16 | Is it possible to instal Linux on an expired desktop, I mean one that has had to many system restores and now not supported.? I am more interested in just having a play and seeing if I like it. Edited by 5425 at 11:41 am, Wed 11 Nov 5425 - 2020-11-11 11:38:00 |
| 17 | yes, its only the windows license that is 'End of Support' - which means still works fine but no more security updates. Further to that, there is no reason you shouldn't be able to install win 7 on the machine and get it to activate, as long as the license key is legit, windows can be downloaded online. You can even upgrade to windows 10 if the specs aren't to bad... king1 - 2020-11-11 11:49:00 |
| 18 | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7 I probably wouldn't encourage using win7 now , but if you can get it installed and use it to uprade to 10 it might be worthwhile... certainly try out linux as well though... Edited by king1 at 11:53 am, Wed 11 Nov king1 - 2020-11-11 11:50:00 |
| 19 | Try Lubuntu. It looks like Windows 10, but is much faster. tygertung - 2020-11-11 12:01:00 |
| 20 | 5425 wrote:
You could also try Linux Zorin OS. Also works really well on slightly older machines as well. I have had it running experimentally for several months on a Lenovo socket 775 unit, E8400 cpu, 8 GB ram. No problems so far. Edited by namtak at 6:07 pm, Wed 11 Nov namtak - 2020-11-11 18:03:00 |
| 21 | debian just use kanotix all fixes are in apt-get update apt-get distupgrade Edited by intrade at 8:10 pm, Wed 11 Nov intrade - 2020-11-11 20:09:00 |
| 22 | Theres a lot to learn with linux, regardless of which distro you choose, but its well worth it IMO. bitsnpieces2020 - 2020-11-12 08:01:00 |
| 23 | Debian is a great server os, But the desktop has sucked for a while now, If you want NVidia drivers working sweet try Popos. bronzeblood - 2020-11-12 11:02:00 |
| 24 | bronzeblood wrote:
Videocard NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] X.Org 1.20.4 [ 1920x1080 ] Edited by intrade at 11:09 am, Thu 12 Nov intrade - 2020-11-12 11:08:00 |
| 25 | 5425 wrote:
This is one great tool to experiment with different versions of Linux and to test which one work best with your system : zak410 - 2020-11-12 11:15:00 |
| 26 | zak410 wrote:
Even better the new Ventoy .. https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html just make the Ventoy USB then copy any iso you would like to boot. bronzeblood - 2020-11-13 19:46:00 |
| 27 | bronzeblood wrote: now that is a neat tool, i've been building bootable usb sticks in past for tools like memtest and chntpw but this way you can just throw on a bunch of the disk images - and so easy to update the stick... Definitely having a play around with that... king1 - 2020-11-13 20:35:00 |
