Running a desktop with 3 monitors, Asus Sabertooth Z 97 motherboard, I7-4790 CPU, NVidia GEForce GT 730 graphics solution, 24 GB RAM. Was running until this last update the 5.14 kernel. Plasma desktop. Encrypted file system. Downloaded the update and re booted, GRUB loaded, selected the OS, went …

Sorry to hear about your issue, but this is the thread (and solution) you’re looking for: [image] Nvidia drops 700 (Kepler) into legacy branch (470xx) Announcements and news [novideo-dist] With the release of the new feature branch release: [495.44] Kepler GP…

Hi Scotty Many kind thanks for this excellent thread… Will report back on how the resolution goes. You are most excellent !

Scotty Works! Most excellent. Solved. Thanks very much. I must have used the wrong search terms that I did not find the thread you directed me to. I have a question. I disabled all of the display managers-lightdm, gdm and sddm to be able to get to the login prompt without more keystrokes when …

Display managers like gdm and sddm essentially do exactly what you think they do. I use Gnome, so in my case when I just quickly see what processes I have running, I have a little small process called gdm-x-session. It’s not using any CPU power and barely any memory, but from what I am only assuming…

Thanks very much Scotty. Its interesting. I have the desktop in question set to remember the last session at logout and use it to among other things monitor sun weather its effect on the earth (with the new sunspot cycle we are starting going off so far with a bang)…so when I restarted after the dr…

No worries man, glad your system is back in working order! Carry on using your system how best you like to, just be sure to not go staring at the sun too often now! :stuck_out_tongue:

Next time you buy a graphics card, think hard about whether that is going to be Nvidya.

Hi Kresimir Funny you should mention that. After I was running again last night I spent some time trying to find laptops with AMD solutions on the CPU and graphics rather than Nvidia. My laptop died recently. Have been in the market for one I can do both some simple coding on, do photo processing …

Most recent update (5.14) broke both the display manager and X

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Scotty_Trees November 2, 2021, 4:28am 2

Sorry to hear about your issue, but this is the thread (and solution) you’re looking for: