furycd001

furycd001, 2 years ago

One or two recent updates to the 470xx nvidia drivers on Arch partially broke my system. Since the most recent fix, I have the packages on hold so that they don’t ever get updated again. I just want them to work from here on…

furycd001, 2 years ago

Thanks for the tip, will have to look into using it…

furycd001, 2 years ago

Most recently I updated nvidia drivers on Arch & failed to read the output printed to the terminal. Next time I turned on the computer I was left with the dreaded blinking cursor due to a driver issue. My graphics card had just switched from the main nvidia driver to 470xx & I had failed to notice. Installing the correct driver fixed the problem & I was once again able to boot. Previously way back in like 2002’ish I got a second monitor for my setup & tried manually configuring it. Had a number of unsuccessful boots, before I finally got it working…

furycd001, 2 years ago

I just use xkill for that…

furycd001, 2 years ago

Thankfully I’ve never had that happen, but if it did I would probably just switch to a tty & use the killall command on whatever was giving me bother…

furycd001, 2 years ago (edited 2 years ago)

My computer just works so I’ve never needed to check, but I run XFCE & have xfce4-taskmanager installed, so I could use that if I ever needed…

furycd001, 2 years ago

I ditched all top programs on my system, because I have no use for any of them…