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
I have never been so angry with my Ubuntu machine. If I wanted an OS that ignored all my wishes and did darn well whatever it wanted, I would have installed a Mac or a Windows.
I have been trying to get rid of these nvidia drivers that freezes my system every now and then, and no matter how many times I uninstall all the driver packages, boom, there they are back again.
Even added those drivers into module blacklist, but noooo, these drivers are so special that they get loaded regardless of whether I want it or not.
Good news - I am not the only guy, people have been complaining about this for years.
Bad news - there doesn't seem to be a clean solution, grrrrr.
Can you run a automatic monitor program to periodically check if they're loaded, and if yes --> uninstall? Say once every 5 minutes.
Not an ideal solution, but effective. You can play around with the timing to then figure out what routine is being used to reload the bad drivers. I guess to do it right and properly diagnose it, you'd also create a registry for every time it came out positive.
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.
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.