I have some USB flash drives with different linux distros installed and a USB hard drive with MX21 installed. All the flash drives have the default nouveau video driver installed and the external hard drive with MX21 OS has a nvidia driver installed. All systems had xfce desktops. I booted into all drives several times with the following results.
MX21 iso live media-flash drive: oscillations
MX21 installed-flash drive: oscillations
Spiral-flash drive: oscillations
Mint-flash drive: no issues
Zorin-flash drive: no issues
Lite-flash drive: no issues
MX21-ext hard drive: no issues
so, some of the flash drives booted and ran ok and some didn’t. The only MX21 drive that booted and ran ok was the external hard drive with the nvidia driver. I successfully booted two laptop computers with all the USB drives.
Logically, I think it’s a video driver issue, but some distros worked and some didn’t, using the default drivers. The external hard drive with the nvidia driver installed, booted and ran without any issues. I didn’t get a chance to install the nvidia drivers on the internal hard drive when it was acting up. It’s not heat related because the issue occurred after being powered down for over 12 hours. I didn’t install anything or update after the issue started. I was using the computer for a couple of hours earlier with the external USB hard drive and nvidia driver.
Right now the computer is working ok, but I would be interested in any comments and suggestions on what could have initiated the problem and why it could have disappeared.
Quick System Info Desktop Hard Drive 1/26/2023
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Snapshot created on: 20211107_1046
System: Kernel: 5.10.0-21-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-21-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: MX-21.1_x64 Wildflower October 20 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine: Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: h9-1215t v: 1.00 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter>
Mobo: PEGATRON model: 2AD5 v: 1.03 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: 8.21 date: 10/20/2014
Battery: Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M215 serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: Discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K360 serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored)
rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-3770 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 3A (58)
stepping: 9 microcode: 21 cache: L2: 8 MiB
flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 54272
Speed: 1596 MHz min/max: 1600/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1596 2: 1597 3: 1596 4: 1597 5: 1597 6: 1596 7: 1597
8: 1597
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 950] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1402 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102 size: 477x268mm (18.8x10.6") diag: 547mm (21.5")
OpenGL: renderer: NV126 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GM206 High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com. driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
chip-ID: 10de:0fba class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-21-amd64 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Network: Device-1: Ralink RT5390 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 modules: wl port: e000
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1814:5390 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: alx v: kernel port: d000
bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:1091 class-ID: 0200
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.83 TiB used: 348.17 GiB (18.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZAZ-00GGJB0 size: 1.82 TiB block-size:
physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 0A80 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdf maj-min: 8:80 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer size: 7.45 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.26 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 1.81 TiB size: 1.78 TiB (98.37%) used: 346.47 GiB (19.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap: Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nouveau temp: 44.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 272
Repos: Packages: 2380 note: see --pkg apt: 2372 lib: 1271 flatpak: 8
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
Info: Processes: 259 Uptime: 12m wakeups: 6 Memory: 23.43 GiB used: 1.03 GiB (4.4%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5
default: 5 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4
running-in: quick-system-info-mx inxi: 3.3.06
Boot Mode: UEFI
