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After leaving my system shutdown for a week on boot it reports "Running in software rendering mode". At least once in the cycle of reboot/check BIOS settings/boot in maintenance mode/boot normal the rendering error did not appear and the NVIDIA card was being used for rendering. Also intermittent is whether or not WIFI is detected/enabled at startup. The startup process is taking a long time, then a minute or so for the keyboard/mouse to respond. WIred network is okay. The external mouse/keyboard are recognized; the external monitor is not. Using driver manager it says I am using the recommended nvidia-driver-470 driver. All installed software is the most recent, as of 28 May 2022. BIOS secure startup is disabled. The Windows side booted okay and recognized mouse, keyboard and monitor so appeared to be okay (as far as I could tell) but was running "hot" based on the fan noise.

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kay@grumpy:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Host: grumpy Kernel: 4.15.0-180-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 7.5.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.10 wm: muffin 4.0.7 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81Q6 v: Legion Y545 serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 10 v: Legion Y545 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0R32862 WIN serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: LENOVO v: BHCN42WW date: 05/21/2021 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 52.2 Wh condition: 52.2/57.0 Wh (92%) volts: 12.8/11.5 
  model: SMP L17M3PG2 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Full cycles: 9 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 12.0 MiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 62399 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 
  3: 800 4: 801 5: 800 6: 800 7: 801 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 801 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 10de:2191 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: fbdev,nouveau 
  unloaded: modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~77Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 10.0.0 256 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.8 
  compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A 
  bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348 
  Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.1 
  chip ID: 10de:1aeb 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-180-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: N/A 
  bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:a370 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 bus ID: 07:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.38 TiB used: 148.46 GiB (10.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: HFM512GDHTNG-8310A size: 476.94 GiB 
  speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 serial: <filter> rev: 80060C00 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM049-2GH172 size: 931.51 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: LXM3 scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 36.42 GiB used: 32.15 GiB (88.3%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 
  ID-2: /home size: 193.74 GiB used: 35.54 GiB (18.3%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 14.90 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ppa-bionic.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
  2: deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/libreoffice-libreoffice-still-bionic.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/libreoffice-still/ubuntu bionic main
  2: deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/libreoffice-still/ubuntu bionic main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list 
  1: deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x bionic main
  2: deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x bionic main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/linuxmint/packages tessa main upstream import backport
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Info:
  Processes: 281 Uptime: 24m Memory: 15.58 GiB used: 1.72 GiB (11.0%) 
  Init: systemd v: 237 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0 alt: 7 Shell: bash 
  v: 4.4.20 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.27 
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Re: Running in software rendering mode/no WIFI - Internmittent

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Have you turned off fast boot in the bios and in Windows turned off fast startup?

The information you posted suggests that its using the open source nouveau (why can't I spell this right first time?) rather than the 410 proprietary driver. Unless I'm misreading it in which case I hope someone else jumps in and corrects me.

Assuming you haven't, I would try sorting out fast boot, see if that helps anything and then use driver manager to reinstall the recommended driver.
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Your hardware is too new for Mint 19.1. Do a fresh clean installation of Mint 20.3 and take it from there.
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I will check fast boot. I doubt this is the solution, however. Everything had been working fine -- the setup and configuration dates from Jul 2019 when I first installed Mint 19. Changes have been additional pkg installs and regular updates. Looking at my noted from Jun 2019, I disabled Windows fast startup. (I boot Windows maybe twice a year.)

I tried the suggested edit to /etc/modules to add nvidia, nvidia-drm and nvidia-modeset. After that I do have the nvidia driver running (and the NVIDIA Server settings app available).

But... it is still not recognizing the WIFI card (am plugged into wired at the moment, so cannot test external monitor in other room).

This is wonky -- on one of the numerous reboots today the WIFI __was__ working. And on one the video driver was also working.

Still looking. I did boot the Windows side to eliminate hardware as the issue
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2hams wrote: Sat May 28, 2022 6:23 pmI tried the suggested edit to /etc/modules to add nvidia, nvidia-drm and nvidia-modeset. After that I do have the nvidia driver running (and the NVIDIA Server settings app available).

But... it is still not recognizing the WIFI card (am plugged into wired at the moment, so cannot test external monitor in other room).

This is wonky -- on one of the numerous reboots today the WIFI __was__ working. And on one the video driver was also working.
This sounds like maybe a kernel change prompted the issues? Others have run into issue with recent 4.15 kernels and experienced similar slowdowns. I convinced several people with 8th-gen Intel CPUs to switch to the 5.4 kernel and their issues are now gone.

Your system has a 9th-gen Intel CPU. I strongly recommend upgrading to the 5.4 kernel. It should be available to you in Update Manager. View > Linux Kernels and click Continue. Had you been running an LM20 version, I would recommend an even newer kernel.

Edited to add: The problems for people using the 4.15 kernel on LM19 seemed to start with this version Kernel Update: 4.15.0.177.166 SERIOUS PROBLEMS.
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Pjotr wrote: Sat May 28, 2022 5:51 pm Your hardware is too new for Mint 19.1. Do a fresh clean installation of Mint 20.3 and take it from there.
What he said.
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SMG -

Thank you!!! Yes, it was the Kernel 4.15.0.177.166. Those were my symptoms exactly, originally masked by the "Running in rendering mode" issue. The date of the 4.15 release makes sense, and the problems did not appear until I did a reboot. (Note to self, reboot after kernel updates, you know better than that.)

Installing kernel 5.4.0-113 solved the problems. I will wait a while before installing LM 20.

Pjtor, Rob - The problem was not that my hardware is too new for Mint 19.1. I have been running Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa since I first installed software and configured the system in June 2019. At that time, the only issue was the nVIDIA card was too new, and there was a fix for that. The 9th generation Intel chip has worked fine.
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2hams wrote: Sun May 29, 2022 12:04 pm Pjtor, Rob - The problem was not that my hardware is too new for Mint 19.1.
Installing Mint 20.3 would have given you both the redeeming 5.4.x kernel and newer firmware. And then some. Anyway, suit yourself. :mrgreen:
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Pjtor - Good point. I want to ensure that what I currently have installed is stable (seems to be). And I will probably do some file cleanup and remove unused packages before I upgrade. I also have some end of month cleanup for my (genealogy) hobby, so changes will wait until after that.
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