What a Nightmare.

[f33dm3bits]

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Running the nvidia GT 710 gpu card with the 470 driver does have some advantages over nouveau.

I know I have an Nvidia GPU myself on my desktop and server. It's still possible to install the driver manually on Linux Mint, which is what I do in my Jellyfish/Plex server.

 

[bob466]

The problem was solved and I'm running this Kernel in Mint Cinnamon 22.1...

As I said Mint Cinnamon 22.3 is running Kernel 6.8.0.124 with the same Graphic Card in the same Tower and does not have this problem...why this happened I have no idea but the most important thing is to know how to fix it..rather than buying a new card.

As for the nouveau open source driver...it sucks and is always better to have a Graphic Card and I'm not a gamer either.

 

[Trml]

Something you can try on the broken install is to switch to the nvidia-driver-470-server package, credit: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/acti...re-legacy-nvidia-graphics-drivers-470/77725/4

 

[MikeWalsh]

As I understand it - with mainstream distros - for anybody with an Nvidia card, dkms will attempt to automatically re-build the 'nvidia.ko' kernel module every time there's an incremental kernel update.

We don't have this issue with Puppy, since our Pup's entire update process is entirely different. Most Puppies are a static 'snapshot in time', usually without a built-in update mechanism.....and only recent Debian-based Puppies even attempt to follow the update cadence of the "parent" distro.

This is a genuine PITA anyway, given the need to keep any updater's sticky paws away from Puppy's Busybox-based backbone AND the standard range of uniquely 'Puppy' packages that come with every Pup OOTB.

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Traditionally, if you want updated kernel, newer packages, etc, you install the next newer build of Puppy.....which only takes a couple of minutes for anyone already running her, given that the necessary scripted 'utilities' are a standard part of most Pups anyway.


Mike.

 

[kc1di]

The problem was solved and I'm running this Kernel in Mint Cinnamon 22.1...
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As I said Mint Cinnamon 22.3 is running Kernel 6.8.0.124 with the same Graphic Card in the same Tower and does not have this problem...why this happened I have no idea but the most important thing is to know how to fix it..rather than buying a new card.

As for the nouveau open source driver...it sucks and is always better to have a Graphic Card and I'm not a gamer either. View attachment 32296

Glad you got it sorted for now.