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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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.
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
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.
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.
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.