Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 1/1/21 3:51 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> debian-users:
>
> I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics ...

> After a random amount of time (minutes to hours) of watching videos on 
> YouTube ...

> The system will crash ...


Recent upgrades seem to have fixed the problem:

    2021-05-02 10:43:16 root@dipsy ~
    # apt-get upgrade
    ...
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      apt apt-utils bind9-host firefox-esr gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0 
gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-gl gstreamer1.0-libav 
gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly 
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio gstreamer1.0-x
      libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libbind9-161 libdns-export1104 
libdns1104 libgstreamer-gl1.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libisc-export1100 libisc1100 libisccc161 
libisccfg163 liblwres161 openjdk-11-jre openjdk-11-jre-headless
      thunderbird wpasupplicant xserver-common xserver-xorg-core 
xserver-xorg-legacy


Reboot:

    2021-05-10 19:37:46 dpchrist@dipsy ~
    $ cat /etc/debian_version
    10.9


I seem to recall similar experiences with Debian 7 and 9 -- after enough 
point releases and package updates, graphics became stable.


HTH,

David