Hi all,

I have recently installed Debian 12, KDE Plasma on my desktop pc, coming from windows 10.

I haven’t yet messed with any drivers, everything seemed to run just fine. Until i noticed that after 1 or more hours just browsing or watching a streaming video, my desktop pc starts to rattle as if it is suddenly hard at work, the mouse cursor becomes unresponsive, and a minute later it doesn’t move at all and the only thing left is to shut down with the power button.

So, i’m pretty sure nothing is suddenly wrong with fans or CPU temperature or whatnot, but maybe a Nvidia driver should be installed? Can i just follow Debians advice here?

Do you need additional info?

  • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
    7·
    11 months ago

    I have the same card on Debian 12. All you need is to install nvidia-driver and firmware-linux, then reboot. (assuming you’re using the default kernel)

    If you still have the same issues, it’s not a driver problem.

    But I had the exact same problem with KDE, on a default Debian 12 install. Debian Gnome didn’t crash. Neither did KDE on other distros.
    My best guess is you need to switch to another DE, Debian release branch, or distro. After some quick googling, Debian Stable+KDE+nVidia seems to be a combination that just doesn’t work well. Sadly, this is still a reality in the Linux world. With so many moving parts built by independent projects, some combinations are broken.

    • Oscar@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Did you have to enable non-free for that? Or, I guess, nowadays it would probably be in non-free-firmware.

      • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 months ago

        nvidia-driver is in non-free, firmware-linux is in non-free-firmware. You have to enable both.

    • Papanca@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Apologies for the late reply. I followed the instructions on the Debian page and now i keep seeing a popup with: conflicting nouveau kernel module loaded. It advices to reboot, but that doesn’t work. Apparently, i had the dreaded nouveau already loaded on my window install. I’ m waiting for help from someone who will visit tomorrow, because i seem to be suffering from a severe case of covid brain fog and am currently to stupid to mess with it…very annoying. Also, because i can’t install programs now, also apparently because of this conflicting driver.

        • Papanca@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          I don’t have secure boot enabled and am using Wayland. It doesn’t work in the sense that reboot doesn’t solve the conflict. For instance, when trying to install software through cli, i get a: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run sudo dpkg --configure -a to correct the problem. When i do that, the same popup about the conflict pops up. (And installing graphically trough Discover gives a ‘cannot obtain lock’ error. Thank you for the link, but that is the link i mentioned - and followed - in my post :-) Covid; yes, it was my first time and every bit as awful as i heard from people