Re: Debian 11: Nvidia NVS 310 with nvidia driver freezes after two days
On Monday 20 September 2021 11:58:02 Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On Mon Sep 20 08:42:33 2021 "Alexander V. Makartsev"
> <avbetev@gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > On 19.09.2021 16:22, Roger Price wrote:
> >> My Nvidia NVS 310 card with the nvidia 390.144 driver starts off
> >> perfectly, but after two days freezes: no reaction to keyboard or
> >> mouse action.
> >
> > Have you tried to run some benchmarks to force the issue? By doing
> > that you could reveal some potential problem with inadequate
> > cooling or problems of electrical nature.
> > It is quite old hardware so it is hard to tell for sure. There
> > could be myriad reasons why it freezes, ranging from faulty
> > capacitors on motherboard and VGA to a faulty PSU.
>
> I was having similar problems with an old nVidia card (GeForce 630).
> A friend gave me an ATI card to try. Although I never did get his
> card to work, I did discover that my old card was in rough shape
> physically. The fan had broken down, and the cooling fins on the
> heat sink were full of dust bunnies. There wasn't much I could do
> for the fan, but I gave the heat sink a thorough cleaning and put
> the card back in. It's been running for over a week now with no
> problems, where before it was locking up every day or two.
>
Fans can be replaced, there are vendors on ebay selling better quality
replacements if you shop carefully.
> >> I still have nouveau present. dpkg-query -l | grep nouveau
> >> reports: ii libdrm-nouveau2:amd64 2.4.104-1 amd64 Userspace
> >> interface to nouveau-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime
> >> ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.17-1 amd64 X.Org X server --
> >> Nouveau display driver
> >
> > Doesn't matter if you have 'nouveau' installed, since proprietary
> > nvidia driver blacklists it for you upon installation.
>
> On earlier versions of Debian (I'm currently running Buster),
> I was having trouble with the nouveau driver locking up.
> Replacing it with nVidia's proprietary driver corrected
> that problem, so I've been wary of nouveau ever since.
> But if your graphics card overheats, it doesn't matter
> which driver you're running. :-)
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