Sun, 1 Sep 2024 22:35:58 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@gmail.com> :
On 9/1/24 8:43 PM, bent fender wrote:
If I remove noaccel=1 then I do get the WM but no GUI after log-in, just a solirary mouse arrow jumping about in the darknes.
There is something amiss beyond your basic driver issue. I can only speculate. Is there any chance you have on-board video on your motherboard that could have gotten enabled by default when your AMD card was removed? (or some other oddness causing the video system to fight over who is in charge?)
If I remove nomodeset I get what removing 3 does.
With the above contorsions at least I get a GUI that I can use as long as I'm not the usual user and as long as I don't want internet.
That is the best SECURITY FEATURE -- no chance of malware from a remote host :)
I'd take a trip though the bios settings just to make sure there isn't anything funny that got flipped. It also wouldn't hurt to post the output of:
# dmidecode
You can save the output to a file with:
# dmidecode > /tmp/dmidecode.txt
and then upload /tmp/dmidecode.txt
Also you have sddm for the display manager, what desktops do you have installed? Just KDE?
What plymouth rpms are installed:
$ rpm -qa | grep plymouth | sort
What does
$ cat /proc/cmdline
show?
That will add some additional information to the mix. Also double check the modules:
$ lsmod | grep "nvidia\|nouveau"
We will go from there.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
*Thanks for all your help*, I had a decision to make and I made it. My son wanted to borrow my lawn-mower and truck to take it with so I said "WHY OF COURSE MY SON, BTW THAT OLD AMD GPU YOU PROMISSED ME...". Twenty minutes later I took out the nvidia and am now enjoying these nice pinkish whites that the AMD 5700 is spoiling me with. If you or any dev want the fanless gt640 just send me a postal address to ship it to and it's yours or his or hers. First come first served, I'll junk it in a week.