On Sunday, 23 June 2024 13:19:18 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 23 June 2024 08:53:01 BST Dale wrote: > >> Top posting for consistency. > >> > >> I booted the Gentoo GUI media. I opened a window just in case it > >> rebooted or something while I took a little nap. The resolution is > >> 1080P which is what I expected the monitor to run at. When I got back > >> up a few minutes ago, the same window was there. It ran for hours > >> without the monitor powering off. I think this eliminates hardware. > > > > Yes! :-) > > I was worried that $100 video card I bought, most I ever spent on a > video card, was for nothing. I'd hate for it to be defective somehow. > > >> I also found something new. I can go in the BIOS menu and boot a USB > >> stick directly from that by just clicking on it. O_O WOW!!! I said > >> the new BIOS had improved by a lot. Can that thing wash dishes too??? > >> LOL > > > > It is the same as the legacy BIOS in this respect, only the GUI is > > different. With the old BIOS you would press F2 or Delete at POST and > > then go into the boot menu to select 'Removable Media' or some such. > > Well, on this one, I thought I was going to select it for a temporary > boot after exiting the BIOS, one time thing, but when I clicked it, the > menu screen for Knoppix popped up. I didn't exit the BIOS or anything. > Just click and off it went to boot what I clicked. o_O > > >> Still open to ideas if anyone has any. If not, I may safe key files and > >> start over, and fix my partition layout too. > > > > Diff the settings used by the LiveUSB and the settings you have configured > > on your installation. Starting over with your installation, only to > > follow the same path and without *knowing* what you need to change, will > > not necessarily resolve your issue. > > That's my thinking. The only benefit to reinstalling is correcting the > partition boo boo.
What in particular are you referring to? I thought you created an ESP, / and /home partitions, if I recall. > I also might learn something, maybe. Of course, > there is that blind squirrel tho. I think I'll get the config file info > from the Gentoo media tho. > > Since my last message, it's been sitting on a Knoppix screen. It's > still sitting there just like I left it for my second nap. So, hardware > is certainly in the clear. A config issue is the problem, which means I > was right, I missed something. Somewhere. > > Now to go find it. ;? See what config files (if any) may have been created for Xorg, what drivers are loaded for your graphics, what kernel modules are in play. lspci -knn for other drivers too. Also save dmesg to compare with your kernel's output. PS. It's getting warmer and noticed on an older PC the temperatures were creeping up a bit and the fans were getting louder. Last time I applied thermal paste on its CPU was in 2017. So, I took it apart, cleaned it and re- applied fresh, very expensive, thermal paste. Well, I fell off my seat after I restarted it and run cpuburn on it for 10 minutes on all cores. A 19% reduction in CPU temperature!! 0_0
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