Issue: The system freezes when running 3+ programs on ZOS when I keep the nouveau drivers. If I switch to the nvidia340 drivers, the xServer will not even load and I am forced to work with the terminal.
I figured my system needs to run the nvidia304 drivers but apparently they are not supported. So… im stuck at the moment.
I need help to do one of the following:
disabling the nvidia card and run only on the intel HD gpu at 256mb.
roll back the kernel, install nvidia304 drivers, and hope it works.
The challenge is that I believe that the nvidia card also runs the audio. I might be mistaken on that tho.
I would love to see Option two happening. Who can help me out with this?
Well Michel, to be 100% accurate, a user with an Nvidia GPU, should look up their card on Nvidia's website, to see if its still supported. Because if its no longer supported, Nvidia will state so, and they will also state, the last Nvidia driver version, that supports your card.
That is what i did, the last working driver for that card is 340.1080. I always check on the nvidia site when a user reports a driver is not working well for them.
Well… i gave it a shot to the 460 driver and it almost worked but it seems it needs some configuration still. At least now I get the SORIN startup logo to show but it freezes after the animation. Any sugestions?
OK, good to know your running the latest available kernel, and we haven't had a bunch of bad reports about that kernel version, so you should be ok I would think.
I want you to click on the Zorin logo and type disks, click on that to open the DISKS utility. Select the disk on the left side that has Zorin OS on it.
Click on the 3-dots and click on smart data self tests. Then click the start self test at the bottom of the window. Post your results when completed.
And yes, at this point, I am wondering about the condition of your drive, it shouldn't take long to run these steps to find out if your drive is ok.
This did the job!!! Awesome! However, the loading of the system is slow. But after that, it works very smooth. I will start a new topic on the booting issue i'm having. Thank you kindly @Aravisian
I was looking to know the condition of the drive. You have 8 bad sectors on the drive, which is not a good sign. But thankfully you don't have any really important data on the drive since this is a fresh install right.
Having said that however, I would consider putting money aside for a new hard drive at some point. Just so you know, a healthy drive doesn't have bad sectors. And before you ask, can bad sectors effect an operating systems ability to function? Answer is yes it can.
As the drive accumulates more bad sectors, it begins to slow down more and more, and it will malfunction more often as well.
It should be by the averages. Like mileage on a car, it could be a quick general guide to start as but really- t4sting the disk is the only way to know its integrity.
logo and type disks, click on that to open the DISKS utility. Select the disk on the left side that has Zorin OS on it.