Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
The only way to unload the drivers once they have been loaded is to turn off the graphical console (and close all apps running there) and unload them and then restart the graphical console.
But that still doesn't solve the problem if the driver freezes the system in one of those 5 min gaps.
Don't worry, I will find the correct solution even if it means wasting a lot of valuable time, lol.
somebody has to have gotten into the kernel and found where it allows/enforces this.
How married are you to that nvidia?
An AMD Radeon might be worth the switch.
Unfortunately I'm stuck with windows and RTX4090 + proprietary "stuff"...
I have an RTX4090 that I use for my AI workload, so cannot really get rid of it.
That would drive me nuts too ... maybe even enough to throw 10 pro on it and lock it down - dual boot.
There's got to be a way to manually install the driver, then lock it down without updating.
I ran into some of this via their auto updater game ready bs - took forever just to roll it back and get it right so i could work in Win10.
Now, I avoid all auto installation and Nvidia's utilities & just pull down the driver directly/manually and install. Not sure if you're able to do that or not.
It seems to be an ongoing and prevalent issue...note time stamps
Last time I was using Windows 10, I could only set it to not do update for 2 weeks or so max. Alteast on my Ubuntu, I can disable most updates.
On the whole, Linux is far better for me than both Windows and Mac - I run all my VMs on them, and the kvm beats the crap out of HyperV and VMWare any day, and I can automate everything as I want.
The problem I am facing is not really auto installation it looks like. It seems like the nvidia modules are compiled into the kernel or something. I might have to rebuild a custom kernel.