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Distro hopping to avoid crashes with NVIDIA or AMD graphics
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(The following overlooks my early use of Red Hat Linux, on a Thinkpad, around the turn of the century and my repeated use of Ubuntu in VMs since then.)

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The NVIDIA GK106GL [Quadro K4000] graphics card seems to cause crashes on various distros. Here's the checkered history of my desktop machine:

  • Ubuntu crash on suspend/resume.
  • Fedora 35 The nouveau driver occasionally crashes and locks up the desktop, requiring a power off.
  • Fedora 35 installed nvidia 470 driver.
  • Fedora 36 beta.
  • Fedora 36 kernel upgrade broke nvidia driver.
  • Debian 11.3.0 with kernel 5.10.0 crashes every 5-10 suspend/resume cycles (bug 547?).
  • Debian 11.3.0 with kernel 4.19.252+ crashes while using vscodium (bug 177).
  • Debian 11.3.0 with various 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x kernels and nouveau crashes sooner or later after suspend/resume.
  • Arch with nouveau and xmonad seems stable although I did experience a short period (in June 2023) where X crashed on resume that went away after another rolling upgrade. Adding the kernel parameter nouveau.noaccel=1 seemed to fix the problem.
  • Upgrading arch to the 6.7 kernel ran into an out of space problem, detailed here.
  • Upgrading arch to the 6.7.1 kernel caused serious problems and took a few hours to recover, detailed here.
  • Upgrading to the 6.7.2 kernel was as smooth as ever, so I continue on arch (January 2024).
  • March 2024: black screen after reboot. Replaced graphics card with AMD FirePro V5900.

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  • March 25 2024: After switching to AMD FirePro V5900, experiencing occasionally crashes on suspend/resume.
    • This is on arch with kernel 6.8.1-arch1-1
    • Kernel parameter nouveau.noaccel=1 is still configured.
    • Tried adding kernel parameter amdgpu.runpm=0 (see this)
  • I was irritated by GRUB slowly painting/unpainting a rectangle round the boot menu, so I uncommented the following line in /etc/default/grub to disable the graphical terminal: 
    GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console
    and then rebuilt the GRUB configuration via: 
    sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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