Soooo kernel 5.10 doesn't have the necessary drivers
Kernel 5.18 does but crashes...

Other kernel versions are not available on Debian repositories

No idea how to go about this...

#help #linux

@neurob
No, schermo compatto
X221 credo...

È un portaatile molto vecchio, lo presi qualche anno fa per 60€ per prendere appunti e leggere PDF, tuttavia non ci si può fare molto di più.

@rastinza beh, immagino. Se non ti servivano i PDF potevi usarlo senza interfaccia grafica. Sto cercando anche io na roba così.

@rastinza You might be able to find the source code for a different version of the Kernel and build it. I've rarely had a bad experience with custom compiled Kernels. It should help trim the excess off too.

@AmpBenzScientist
Yes, I imagine I could...
I didn't want to waste a lot of time in doing this however.
I'm not even sure what's the earliest version of the kernel I can take that has these drivers.
I guess I'll first try another stable Linux distribution to see if they've got the new kernel and that doesn't break everything, otherwise I'll do this

@rastinza You can use the latest available one too. It's not too time consuming to compile the Kernel, it's the configuration that takes a while. You can enable the newer or testing repositories which should have more Kernel versions available.

@rastinza Good luck with that Nvidia GPU and Linux. If you are using an open source driver for the GPU then use the proprietary driver. Monitor the boot process for more useful information. I'm guessing it's the GPU.

@AmpBenzScientist
Yes, I guess the GPU is creating some troubles...
Didn't really need such a modern one, just a dedicated one to run some calculation

Didn't even try configuring it yet...

@AmpBenzScientist
I'll first try installing fedora to see if that works out of the box
If it doesn't I'll get into troubleshooting

@AmpBenzScientist
You were right; installing the proprietary drivers did in fact solve the problem

@AmpBenzScientist
In the end I found other problems; I installed fedora and that works well out of the box

@rastinza I thought about recommending RHEL and decided not to just as quickly as it came into my mind.

Glad you found something that is working. You should have good repos for OpenMP and GPGPU utilization. You should be able to configure the GPU to be used in calculations or compilation without much work. If you think you are fast now, wait until you get the GPU cores involved. That's one positive thing I will say about RHEL. It's good with Clusters, HPC, Heterogeneous Hardware and doing systems tests on the F-22 Raptor.

@rastinza I had a WNIC on the first system I tried Linux on and every distribution went into Kernel Panic except for DSL. The driver would load automatically and cause a Kernel Panic. It was the first and only time I had to physically remove hardware to get Linux running.

In retrospect, it was a good start with Linux. At the time I was rather upset that it had taken a couple of weeks to get working. Within a year or so I was hardening Kernels and custom compiling for different purposes. That was a decade ago.

It's a pleasure to help as I wouldn't have made it this far without the help of others.

@trinsec
No doubt; I will have to do a bunch of calculations and this will help very much since I'll be able to do part of the work locally, without having to wait for the hpc