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    Non system NTFS volumes will not mount on startup.

    Howdy All, I have tried everything to get two NTFS partitions on two separate physical drives to mount. I can mount the drives after the machine is booted, but only the Windoze EFI boot and system partitions mount on startup. I have changed the registry entries in Win10 to disable fastboot...
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    After an update, system boots, then video fails...

    Update: I was able to SSH in to my system and it was running OK, except for in ps aux, there was a process called .../gdm/Xkeeps crashing. I did a system update, reinstalled GRUB2, GDM, gfxboot, the Nvidia driver and DKMS module and fixed a config setting in my gfxboot config. Nope. nothing...
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    After an update, system boots, then video fails...

    Yeah, I usually have two, but I needed the newest v5.0.9 to ensure my graphics card works.,
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    After an update, system boots, then video fails...

    Distro is PCLinuxOS 2019 with all the updates as of Sunday, May 12. PC is an AMD Ryzen 7, 3.2 Ghz, 32 GB RAM booting UEFI from an M.2 NVME SSD. Nvidia RTX 2060 GPU. The system was running fine after some updates and has been rebooted twice with no issues. The system was shut down for three...
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    After an update, system boots, then video fails...

    Kernel is 5.0.9. it was working fine until it wasn't. I removed all the older kernels.
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    After an update, system boots, then video fails...

    It's been a whole month since I got my system working with my superwide display and the newest Nvidia drivers. All was well until today, when it got past the GRUB2 boot and began to run Plymouth. At that point, the screen freezes in the top third and fills the bottom third with either a...
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    [SOLVED] Can't get GeForce RTX 2060 to work on 3840x1600 display

    SOLVED! I was able to escape into vt1 and log in as root and use the CVT command to get a Modeline that was supposed to work and manually typed it into the existing xorg.conf along with the Options to ignore the EDID modes: Section "Monitor" Modeline "3840x2160R" 533.00 3840 3888 3920 4000...
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    [SOLVED] Can't get GeForce RTX 2060 to work on 3840x1600 display

    Sometimes a few good things emerge from tragedy... My laptop drive still wont copy, but I figured out how to get X working! No to see if it works on the subject PC...
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    [SOLVED] Can't get GeForce RTX 2060 to work on 3840x1600 display

    Things are getting worse.. I gave up and decided to install the shiny new SSD in one of my laptops instead of wasting all day with no results. The spinny drive wouldn't copy due to a disk error, do I decided to slightly shrink one partition on the drive. That process worked, but it changed...
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    [SOLVED] Can't get GeForce RTX 2060 to work on 3840x1600 display

    The reason I got this new GPU was because the old one only had HDMI and DVI outputs and the monitor requires a DisplayPort connection to work at better than 30hz. The connection is now DP cable and it runs at full resolution at 75hz in Windoze... I have had Wayland installed for years, but...
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    [SOLVED] Can't get GeForce RTX 2060 to work on 3840x1600 display

    The max resolution it shows there is 2048x1536. Current res is set as 1024x768. Still no luck getting X to work at all...
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    [SOLVED] Can't get GeForce RTX 2060 to work on 3840x1600 display

    Yep. GRUB2 with Win 10. I am so tired of tweaking GRUB... IllI play with it tomorrow... Been trying live DVD distros with no luck at all. They either won't boot or no X display.. This is usually where I give up and switch distros...
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    [SOLVED] Can't get GeForce RTX 2060 to work on 3840x1600 display

    Yep. You saw me over there, eh? I am trying a few newer distros to see if they can run the damn thing...
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    [SOLVED] Can't get GeForce RTX 2060 to work on 3840x1600 display

    5.0.3 kernel, xorg 1.20.4, nvidia 418.56 driver, LG 38UC99-W 38" IPS LED UltraWide HD FreeSync Monitor. Ryzen 7 with 32GB system RAM. X simply will not run. "No screens found" no matter how I try to configure X. Nvidia module will not compile. Doesn't run on Vesa, nv or nouveau... I'll try...
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    your favorite distribution of linux? and why?

    PCLinuxOS has been my Distro of choice since it began years ago... Why? Because it sucks less than the "Hello Kitty" dumbed down distros like *Buntu and it is more traditional Linux with KDE.
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