Bug#989010: linux-image-5.10.0-7-amd64: No display (post, grub, boot messages and desktop) after the upgrade to 5.10.38
Source: linux
Followup-For: Bug #989010
X-Debbugs-Cc: pitsiorisj@gmail.com
About the logs. Did anyone of you reply to my question "where can I find those
logs?" and I missed it? All I have found, again BY MYSELF, is this file here
that when I run cat on it, gibberish shows up in the terminal. I can zip it and
send it to you if you want to examine it.
# du -h /var/log/journal/somenumbersandletters/system.journal
25M /var/log/journal/somenumbersandletters/system.journal
I have no idea what it may contain, because if it stores the logs from last 50
boots, it has been 2 weeks now and I boot my pc ~3 times a day, so most of
those logs are probably gone.
As for the hardware, it has been almost a week now that it works flawlessly
with another nvidia gpu and 5.10.28 + nvidia 340xx.
Can you imagine how boring it is to press the power button and see your pc boot
just fine instead of checking the monitor to see if post/grub/boot
messages/desktop showed up?
How come this piece of hw did not become flaky, and the ones before it became
just after one day of running with the new kernel?
And what about nouveau and radeon? Running the "untainted" kernel on those (now
broken) gpus did not do a single thing. Neither the nvidia continued to work,
nor ati was saved from dying after the upgrade.
About the "lots of bug reports about nvidia". Out of the 900+ (according to
popcon) people (or systems) that run nvidia 340xx, how many of them do you
think run testing/unstable?
Judging from the feedback I get on my bug reports on every new kernel on which
nvidia 340xx fails to build, I would say me plus 2 or 3 more. And those 2-3
people probably have different hardware than me, e.g. amd cpu and amd chipset,
so the issue may not occur on their setups.
As for the why use nvidia's driver? Because in order to prefer nvidia over
nouvau you need to have demands and standards. If a simple user sees nouveau
draw its 2d desktop fine, he will say it is enough for him.
But, unlike that simple user, I, "unfortunately", want my driver to do hardware
decoding on videos (we have 2021 and not 2010, so this should have been a
standard now for all drivers), 3d and powersaving (also something that should
be a standard). Do you now see the difference between something that "works"
and something that works 110%?
That's why I insist on nvidia's driver.
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