6th March 2017, 14:21
Tower is finally back in business, again, with 17.03 Plasma 5.9.3. It also was so, 24 hrs ago, until i "cleverly" bricked it by accidentally/carelessly restoring a large swathe of old 2.1 Plasma 5.8.4 config files from an Aptik backup. Maui didn't like that at all, going all weird immediately, & then entirely failing to boot [horrible nasty errors on-screen about all sorts of missing stuff].
Anyway, Tower is now still running without the Nvidia gpu card installed, & so far the integrated Intel gpu seems to be doing quite ok [although the Cairo-Dock does occasionally exhibit high frequency "trembles" now, which did not occur with Nvidia]. Other than that, graphically it seems to be quite sweet... though the big question will be ... have the terrible freezes now gone away?
However, the bad thing that is now present, without the Nvidia, is that there is no sound output at all from the standard rear-panel port into which my speakers used to connect. I knew from previous inxi command outputs that the Nvidia was handling the graphics and audio, but i expected then the Intel would also take over the audio, given the current inxi:
But clearly something's wrong. For now, all i have managed is to plug the speakers into the front-panel headphone port [yes, i know that's wrong], so at least now i hear faint audio... it's waaaaaaaaaaaaay too quiet.
It would be ironic if i end up needing to reinstall the Nvidia not for urgent graphics needs, but for audio...
Anyway, Tower is now still running without the Nvidia gpu card installed, & so far the integrated Intel gpu seems to be doing quite ok [although the Cairo-Dock does occasionally exhibit high frequency "trembles" now, which did not occur with Nvidia]. Other than that, graphically it seems to be quite sweet... though the big question will be ... have the terrible freezes now gone away?
However, the bad thing that is now present, without the Nvidia, is that there is no sound output at all from the standard rear-panel port into which my speakers used to connect. I knew from previous inxi command outputs that the Nvidia was handling the graphics and audio, but i expected then the Intel would also take over the audio, given the current inxi:
Code:
Graphics: Card: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Desktop GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 12.0.6
Audio: Card-1 Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Card-2 Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-65-genericBut clearly something's wrong. For now, all i have managed is to plug the speakers into the front-panel headphone port [yes, i know that's wrong], so at least now i hear faint audio... it's waaaaaaaaaaaaay too quiet.
It would be ironic if i end up needing to reinstall the Nvidia not for urgent graphics needs, but for audio...