Ok, throwing up the bat signal.
I will upgrade Debian to 12 within the next month or so...but
before I do, want to clean up my current system.
4.19.0-25 and 4.19.0-24.
The latter will boot fine, the former (newer kernel) will not. it
just goes to a blinking cursor, indefinitely (I guess, didn't wait
for infinity).
I double checked the space on the boot partition, but it's fine,
with 25% space still left.
from the CLI, I get...
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 418.226.00 Driver Version: 418.226.00 CUDA Version: 10.1 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GT 1030 On | 00000000:1F:00.0 On | N/A |
| N/A 46C P8 N/A / 19W | 340MiB / 2000MiB | 39% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 2107 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 259MiB |
| 0 4220 G cinnamon 57MiB |
| 0 11718 G nvidia-settings 0MiB |
| 0 11745 G nvidia-settings 0MiB |
Key information:
I am aware that there are two different installation paths for the nvidia driver, either through the repos or from nvidia downloads.
I think I did the later, but I have misplaced, lost, and cannot download the driver listed above to uninstall it. Apparently, you need the nvidia
installer to uninstall the driver.
I tried from CLI:
apt nvidia purge
but that did not work.
As a last gasp of desperation, I tried to ignore the warning from the new current nvidia downloaded installer, and just install anyway, but it also
does not install the driver.
Reading logs, it says I have another version driver. When I ran that file with the -uninstall flag, it instead said I did not have
an nvidia driver installed.
In summation:
1. I apparently have an nvidia driver installed (proof with nvidia-smi)
2. How it was installed - I am guessing from download file not repos, but not 100% sure.
3. I know linux and nvidia go together like oil and water...
Since not really using this for gaming or anything more than using two monitors, I might just shelf it and delete the latest kernel and set
the older kernel as the default booting kernel--for now, and setup my server properly in the future.
Anyone offer up a silver bullet solution that would be nice =) Otherwise, just gonna shelf it for now.