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christine@christine-XPS-8930:~$ journalctl -b --no-pager
-- Logs begin at Wed 2022-08-10 10:48:16 BST, end at Thu 2023-02-16 14:11:12 GMT. --
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0xf0, date = 2021-11-16
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Linux version 5.15.0-60-generic (buildd@lcy02-amd64-017) (gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #66~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 25 09:41:30 UTC 2023 (Ubuntu 5.15.0-60.66~20.04.1-generic 5.15.78)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-60-generic root=UUID=53b6c5ec-0cfd-41ab-a249-947c6839bc7d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: KERNEL supported cpus:
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Intel GenuineIntel
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: AMD AuthenticAMD
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Hygon HygonGenuine
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Centaur CentaurHauls
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: zhaoxin Shanghai
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 floating point registers'
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE registers'
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX registers'
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x008: 'MPX bounds registers'
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x010: 'MPX CSR'
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]: 576, xstate_sizes[2]: 256
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[3]: 832, xstate_sizes[3]: 64
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[4]: 896, xstate_sizes[4]: 64
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x1f, context size is 960 bytes, using 'compacted' format.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: signal: max sigframe size: 2032
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000057fff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000058000-0x0000000000058fff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000059000-0x000000000009efff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009f000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000003fffffff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000403fffff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000040400000-0x0000000065b96fff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000065b97000-0x0000000065b97fff] ACPI NVS
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000065b98000-0x0000000065b98fff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000065b99000-0x000000006ca9dfff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006ca9e000-0x000000006f28efff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006f28f000-0x000000006f2d7fff] ACPI data
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006f2d8000-0x000000006f6b7fff] ACPI NVS
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006f6b8000-0x000000006fffdfff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006fffe000-0x000000006fffefff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000006ffff000-0x0000000077ffffff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000078000000-0x00000000785fffff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000078600000-0x000000007dffffff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f0000000-0x00000000f7ffffff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fe000000-0x00000000fe010fff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fec00000-0x00000000fec00fff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed00000-0x00000000fed00fff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fee00000-0x00000000fee00fff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ff000000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x0000000480ffffff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: e820: update [mem 0x5d0a0018-0x5d0bfa57] usable ==> usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: e820: update [mem 0x5d0a0018-0x5d0bfa57] usable ==> usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: e820: update [mem 0x5d08f018-0x5d09f057] usable ==> usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: e820: update [mem 0x5d08f018-0x5d09f057] usable ==> usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: e820: update [mem 0x5d082018-0x5d08e057] usable ==> usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: e820: update [mem 0x5d082018-0x5d08e057] usable ==> usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: extended physical RAM map:
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000057fff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000000058000-0x0000000000058fff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000000059000-0x000000000009efff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000000009f000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000003fffffff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000403fffff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000040400000-0x000000005d082017] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000005d082018-0x000000005d08e057] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000005d08e058-0x000000005d08f017] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000005d08f018-0x000000005d09f057] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000005d09f058-0x000000005d0a0017] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000005d0a0018-0x000000005d0bfa57] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000005d0bfa58-0x0000000065b96fff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000065b97000-0x0000000065b97fff] ACPI NVS
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000065b98000-0x0000000065b98fff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000065b99000-0x000000006ca9dfff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000006ca9e000-0x000000006f28efff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000006f28f000-0x000000006f2d7fff] ACPI data
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000006f2d8000-0x000000006f6b7fff] ACPI NVS
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000006f6b8000-0x000000006fffdfff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000006fffe000-0x000000006fffefff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x000000006ffff000-0x0000000077ffffff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000078000000-0x00000000785fffff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000078600000-0x000000007dffffff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000f0000000-0x00000000f7ffffff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000fe000000-0x00000000fe010fff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000fec00000-0x00000000fec00fff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000fed00000-0x00000000fed00fff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000fee00000-0x00000000fee00fff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x00000000ff000000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: reserve setup_data: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x0000000480ffffff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: efi: EFI v2.60 by American Megatrends
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: efi: ACPI 2.0=0x6f29d000 ACPI=0x6f29d000 SMBIOS=0x6fe8d000 SMBIOS 3.0=0x6fe8c000 ESRT=0x68752c98 MOKvar=0x6b59a000
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: secureboot: Secure boot disabled
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: SMBIOS 3.1.0 present.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMI: Dell Inc. XPS 8930/0T2HR0, BIOS 1.1.17 06/22/2021
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: tsc: Detected 3000.000 MHz processor
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: e820: update [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff] usable ==> reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: e820: remove [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff] usable
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: last_pfn = 0x481000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7]: WB WC UC- UC WB WP UC- WT
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: last_pfn = 0x78600 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x000fced0-0x000fcedf]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: esrt: Reserving ESRT space from 0x0000000068752c98 to 0x0000000068752cd0.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: e820: update [mem 0x68752000-0x68752fff] usable ==> reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: e820: update [mem 0x6b59a000-0x6b59afff] usable ==> reserved
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Using GB pages for direct mapping
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: secureboot: Secure boot disabled
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: RAMDISK: [mem 0x5d0c0000-0x6417afff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Early table checksum verification disabled
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: RSDP 0x000000006F29D000 000024 (v02 DELL )
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: XSDT 0x000000006F29D0B8 0000F4 (v01 DELL AS09 01072009 AMI 00010013)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: FACP 0x000000006F2C9CD0 000114 (v06 DELL AS09 01072009 AMI 00010013)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: DSDT 0x000000006F29D240 02CA8C (v02 DELL AS09 01072009 INTL 20160422)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: FACS 0x000000006F6B7500 000040
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: APIC 0x000000006F2C9DE8 0000BC (v03 DELL AS09 01072009 AMI 00010013)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: FPDT 0x000000006F2C9EA8 000044 (v01 DELL AS09 01072009 AMI 00010013)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: FIDT 0x000000006F2C9EF0 00009C (v01 DELL AS09 01072009 AMI 00010013)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: MCFG 0x000000006F2C9F90 00003C (v01 DELL AS09 01072009 MSFT 00000097)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x000000006F2C9FD0 0003A3 (v01 SataRe SataTabl 00001000 INTL 20160422)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: SLIC 0x000000006F2CA378 000176 (v01 DELL AS09 01072009 AMI 00010013)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: BOOT 0x000000006F2CA4F0 000028 (v01 DELL AS09 01072009 AMI 00010013)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x000000006F2CA518 003165 (v02 SaSsdt SaSsdt 00003000 INTL 20160422)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x000000006F2CD680 002892 (v02 PegSsd PegSsdt 00001000 INTL 20160422)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: HPET 0x000000006F2CFF18 000038 (v01 INTEL KBL 00000001 MSFT 0000005F)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x000000006F2CFF50 0011AA (v02 INTEL Ther_Rvp 00001000 INTL 20160422)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x000000006F2D1100 000A2C (v02 INTEL xh_kbl_s 00000000 INTL 20160422)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: UEFI 0x000000006F2D1B30 000042 (v01 DELL\x AS09 00000002 01000013)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: MSDM 0x000000006F2D1B78 000055 (v03 DELL AS09 01072009 AMI 00010013)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x000000006F2D1BD0 0017AE (v02 CpuRef CpuSsdt 00003000 INTL 20160422)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: LPIT 0x000000006F2D3380 000094 (v01 INTEL KBL 00000000 MSFT 0000005F)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x000000006F2D3418 000141 (v02 INTEL HdaDsp 00000000 INTL 20160422)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x000000006F2D3560 00029F (v02 INTEL sensrhub 00000000 INTL 20160422)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x000000006F2D3800 003002 (v02 INTEL PtidDevc 00001000 INTL 20160422)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x000000006F2D6808 000517 (v02 INTEL TbtTypeC 00000000 INTL 20160422)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x000000006F2D6D20 0002E9 (v02 INTEL Wwan 00000001 INTL 20160422)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: DBGP 0x000000006F2D7010 000034 (v01 INTEL 00000002 MSFT 0000005F)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: DBG2 0x000000006F2D7048 000054 (v00 INTEL 00000002 MSFT 0000005F)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: DMAR 0x000000006F2D70A0 0000B0 (v01 INTEL EDK2 00000001 INTL 00000001)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: WSMT 0x000000006F2D7150 000028 (v01 DELL AS09 01072009 AMI 00010013)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving FACP table memory at [mem 0x6f2c9cd0-0x6f2c9de3]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving DSDT table memory at [mem 0x6f29d240-0x6f2c9ccb]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving FACS table memory at [mem 0x6f6b7500-0x6f6b753f]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving APIC table memory at [mem 0x6f2c9de8-0x6f2c9ea3]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving FPDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2c9ea8-0x6f2c9eeb]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving FIDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2c9ef0-0x6f2c9f8b]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving MCFG table memory at [mem 0x6f2c9f90-0x6f2c9fcb]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving SSDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2c9fd0-0x6f2ca372]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving SLIC table memory at [mem 0x6f2ca378-0x6f2ca4ed]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving BOOT table memory at [mem 0x6f2ca4f0-0x6f2ca517]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving SSDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2ca518-0x6f2cd67c]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving SSDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2cd680-0x6f2cff11]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving HPET table memory at [mem 0x6f2cff18-0x6f2cff4f]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving SSDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2cff50-0x6f2d10f9]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving SSDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2d1100-0x6f2d1b2b]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving UEFI table memory at [mem 0x6f2d1b30-0x6f2d1b71]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving MSDM table memory at [mem 0x6f2d1b78-0x6f2d1bcc]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving SSDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2d1bd0-0x6f2d337d]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving LPIT table memory at [mem 0x6f2d3380-0x6f2d3413]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving SSDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2d3418-0x6f2d3558]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving SSDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2d3560-0x6f2d37fe]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving SSDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2d3800-0x6f2d6801]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving SSDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2d6808-0x6f2d6d1e]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving SSDT table memory at [mem 0x6f2d6d20-0x6f2d7008]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving DBGP table memory at [mem 0x6f2d7010-0x6f2d7043]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving DBG2 table memory at [mem 0x6f2d7048-0x6f2d709b]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving DMAR table memory at [mem 0x6f2d70a0-0x6f2d714f]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Reserving WSMT table memory at [mem 0x6f2d7150-0x6f2d7177]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: No NUMA configuration found
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000480ffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: NODE_DATA(0) allocated [mem 0x480fd6000-0x480ffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Zone ranges:
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMA [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000ffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMA32 [mem 0x0000000001000000-0x00000000ffffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Normal [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x0000000480ffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Device empty
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Movable zone start for each node
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Early memory node ranges
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: node 0: [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000057fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: node 0: [mem 0x0000000000059000-0x000000000009efff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: node 0: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000003fffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: node 0: [mem 0x0000000040400000-0x0000000065b96fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: node 0: [mem 0x0000000065b99000-0x000000006ca9dfff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: node 0: [mem 0x000000006fffe000-0x000000006fffefff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: node 0: [mem 0x0000000078000000-0x00000000785fffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: node 0: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x0000000480ffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x0000000480ffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: On node 0, zone DMA: 1 pages in unavailable ranges
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: On node 0, zone DMA: 1 pages in unavailable ranges
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: On node 0, zone DMA: 97 pages in unavailable ranges
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: On node 0, zone DMA32: 1024 pages in unavailable ranges
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: On node 0, zone DMA32: 2 pages in unavailable ranges
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: On node 0, zone DMA32: 13664 pages in unavailable ranges
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: On node 0, zone DMA32: 1 pages in unavailable ranges
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: On node 0, zone Normal: 31232 pages in unavailable ranges
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: On node 0, zone Normal: 28672 pages in unavailable ranges
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1808
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1])
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x04] high edge lint[0x1])
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x05] high edge lint[0x1])
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x06] high edge lint[0x1])
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x07] high edge lint[0x1])
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x08] high edge lint[0x1])
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-119
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: TSC deadline timer available
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: smpboot: Allowing 8 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x00058000-0x00058fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x0009f000-0x000fffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x40000000-0x403fffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x5d082000-0x5d082fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x5d08e000-0x5d08efff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x5d08f000-0x5d08ffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x5d09f000-0x5d09ffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x5d0a0000-0x5d0a0fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x5d0bf000-0x5d0bffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x65b97000-0x65b97fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x65b98000-0x65b98fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x68752000-0x68752fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x6b59a000-0x6b59afff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x6ca9e000-0x6f28efff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x6f28f000-0x6f2d7fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x6f2d8000-0x6f6b7fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x6f6b8000-0x6fffdfff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x6ffff000-0x77ffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x78600000-0x7dffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x7e000000-0xefffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xf8000000-0xfdffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfe000000-0xfe010fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfe011000-0xfebfffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfec01000-0xfecfffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfed00000-0xfed00fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfed01000-0xfedfffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xfee01000-0xfeffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: PM: hibernation: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0xff000000-0xffffffff]
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: [mem 0x7e000000-0xefffffff] available for PCI devices
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: clocksource: refined-jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645519600211568 ns
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:8192 nr_cpumask_bits:8 nr_cpu_ids:8 nr_node_ids:1
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: percpu: Embedded 60 pages/cpu s208896 r8192 d28672 u262144
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: pcpu-alloc: s208896 r8192 d28672 u262144 alloc=1*2097152
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 4055082
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Policy zone: Normal
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-60-generic root=UUID=53b6c5ec-0cfd-41ab-a249-947c6839bc7d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Unknown kernel command line parameters "splash BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-60-generic", will be passed to user space.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 2097152 (order: 12, 16777216 bytes, linear)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 1048576 (order: 11, 8388608 bytes, linear)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:on, heap free:off
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Memory: 15828616K/16478440K available (16393K kernel code, 4374K rwdata, 10792K rodata, 3236K init, 6572K bss, 649564K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=8, Nodes=1
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ftrace: allocating 50047 entries in 196 pages
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ftrace: allocated 196 pages with 3 groups
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: rcu: RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=8192 to nr_cpu_ids=8.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Rude variant of Tasks RCU enabled.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Tracing variant of Tasks RCU enabled.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 25 jiffies.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: rcu: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=8
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: NR_IRQS: 524544, nr_irqs: 2048, preallocated irqs: 16
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: random: crng init done
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: printk: console [tty0] enabled
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: ACPI: Core revision 20210730
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: hpet: HPET dysfunctional in PC10. Force disabled.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: APIC: Switch to symmetric I/O mode setup
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMAR: Host address width 39
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMAR: DRHD base: 0x000000fed90000 flags: 0x0
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMAR: dmar0: reg_base_addr fed90000 ver 1:0 cap 1c0000c40660462 ecap 19e2ff0505e
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMAR: DRHD base: 0x000000fed91000 flags: 0x1
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMAR: dmar1: reg_base_addr fed91000 ver 1:0 cap d2008c40660462 ecap f050da
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMAR: RMRR base: 0x0000006d5c3000 end: 0x0000006d5e2fff
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMAR: RMRR base: 0x00000079800000 end: 0x0000007dffffff
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMAR-IR: IOAPIC id 2 under DRHD base 0xfed91000 IOMMU 1
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMAR-IR: HPET id 0 under DRHD base 0xfed91000
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMAR-IR: Queued invalidation will be enabled to support x2apic and Intr-remapping.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: DMAR-IR: Enabled IRQ remapping in x2apic mode
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: x2apic enabled
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Switched APIC routing to cluster x2apic.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: clocksource: tsc-early: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x2b3e459bf4c, max_idle_ns: 440795289890 ns
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 6000.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=12000000)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: LSM: Security Framework initializing
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: landlock: Up and running.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Yama: becoming mindful.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: x86/cpu: SGX Launch Control is locked. Support SGX virtualization only.
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: process: using mwait in idle threads
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 128, 2MB 8, 4MB 8
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 64, 2MB 0, 4MB 0, 1GB 4
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Spectre V1 : Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Spectre V2 : Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS
Feb 16 12:54:09 christine-XPS-8930 kernel: Spectre V2 : Spectre v2 / SpectreRSB mitigation: Filling RSB on context switch

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post here was wrong code; deleted

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There is an attachment facility. 7th tool from left on the Reply box toolbar labelled "Upload" when you hover over

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Lets try something very easy first: how old or fresh (new) are your RAM-banks ?
And more: how much RAM is vacant in your system (total amount) ?

Has this device a history with an 'old Windows' before you jumped over to Zorin ?

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Mem: total 16086100 used: 1729792 free:11574248 shared: 130428
buffer/cache : 2782060 available:13903260

Computer is dual-booted with windows; Windows10 is on the SSD and Zorin was installed fresh on an internal terabyte drive. At the time of buying the computer (2020), Windows was used briefly for a couple of weeks before Zorin was installed on the separate drive.
In answer to Zabadabadoo, looks like the upload only applies to images, not text files.

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I think https://pastebin.com/ has been used for text files by some.
See: No Icons Appear - #3 by Tom3746

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Thanks for that; never heard of it (suppose not, I'm not really a programmer).
Anyway, I've tried it and it works, here is the output in response to the earlier suggestion of application logs:

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We can rule of course that amount of RAM out as being too low. There is just one thing left we need to know as well and that is all about your CPU (and GPU ) can you do a copy/ paste of the +- 10 first lines of this command:

lscpu

(scroll a bit up in the output of that command).

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You could install Stacer. It is great at cleaning dross from the system. Yesterday I wiped 1.5 Gb of Application cached data.

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Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
Address sizes: 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 8
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 158
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700 CPU @ 3.00GHz

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Specs and stats on the machine all look great.
You say software is up to date.
Two more things to check - I realize this is a 2020 machine but... How much dust is clogging the air out/inlets?
Have these been cleaned? Have you used a thermal monitoring app to actively monitor temps (I use conky but you can use a windowed app like psensor or hardinfo or the terminal.)
You may have a GPU or CPU overheating issue. Also be sure, if this is a notebook computer, that it is placed in a well ventilated position, not on a soft surface or blanket.

And on GPU - what graphics are you using?

sudo lshw -C video

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It was cleaned out a while back; about a couple of months---it's a tower desktop---but I guess I can take another look, although with things going on here tonight it'll have to be a job for tomorrow.
The only direct measurement I have at the moment is via the Disks app, which says the hard drive is running at 35degrees C. I don't have another temperature-monitoring application.
Here is the data from the graphics command:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
resources: irq:141 memory:eb000000-ebffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff memory:b0000000-b1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff
*-display
description: Display controller
product: UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop 9 Series)
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 mode=1440x900 visual=truecolor xres=1440 yres=900
resources: iomemory:2f0-2ef irq:150 memory:2ffe000000-2ffeffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff ioport:f000(size=64)

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Have you tested using the proprietary (ugh lol) driver for the Nvidia card?
I am using it, myself.
Open Software & Updates, then the additional Drivers tab to see and change the drivers you are using for Nvidia.

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Finally found them....but which is the right one to use?

nvidiadrivers
nvidiadrivers788×457 45.8 KB

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You can use any of them, as they are offered. I would stick with the Non-Server ones, though.
You can test each and see which one gives the best performance. I would personally start with the 515 (bottom of the list) as it is the one I have the most confidence in.

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Great; I will set that up and try 515 first. It'll take a while to get some results, so I shall bail out for this evening and thank you all for the input so far. Will then see how things go, and through part of tomorrow, before returning here.

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Well, that was scarey. Found and switched to the 515 last night.
This morning, couldn't boot into Zorin from the grub menu at all....blank screen. Spent an hour online on another machine, looking for ideas; finally got back in (by sheer luck) through the Zorin advanced options...hoping initially to find a safe startmode in the menu, but there isn't one; then opted to boot normally from that same menu and fortunately it brought me back to normal operation and desktop. Have now switched back to the non-proprietary driver....for now.
I think I'll have another go at this when I've recovered my nerves.
P.S no serious dust inside the computer

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Sad news ...... but do not use the bottom of the list driver but more like the top of the list lol ...... It says clearly TESTED in the side comments.

So top of the list the first driver that says TESTED you need to install and try (the others are alternatives, non tested at all lol)

I really never understood Ubuntu and these kind of lists in the extra drivers .... but some say it is for having an alternative should the first one not work for some reason. Lucky my nouveau driver on my 'old Dell' works perfectly.

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Actually... the "Tested" drivers are the ones that give the most trouble.
I recommend avoiding the "tested" ones as that name is quite misleading.

Did you try adding the nomodeset parameter to grub? It's as easy as adding it, running update-grub and then rebooting.
You did not need to spend an hour searching - just ask here on the forum - that is why we are here. We would have guided you to the recovery menu right away so that you would be less stressed.

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Regret that although I was online on a spare laptop, broadband connection wasn't very good and I couldnt get the Zorin forum to load properly until late morning, which is when I posted.
I only learned afterwards about the nomodeset....picked it up on ItsFOSS; but took the opportunity to print the instructions off.
Now that I've got those details, I can carefully try again with another driver...probably not tonight, but when I get a spare couple of hours in the coming few days.
(There's one positive thing about having problems, and that is, you get to find out more about how the OS works :sweat_smile: )

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