Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
by godelski on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @02:16PM
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I update drivers regularly. I've only had one display failure and was solved by a simple rollback. To be a bit fair (:/) it was specifically a combination of new beta driver and a newer kernel. It's definitely improved a ton since 10 years ago I just would not update them except very carefully.
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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
by lolinder on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:47PM
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I've bricked multiple systems just running apt install on the Nvidia drivers. I have no idea how, but I run the installation, everything works fine, and then when I reboot I can't even boot.
That was years ago, but it happened multiple times and I've been very cautious ever since.
Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
by godelski on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @03:53PM
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Interesting. I've never had that issue (~15 years experience) but I always had CPUs with graphics drivers. Do you think that might be it? The danger zone was always at `startx` and never before. (I still buy CPUs with graphics drivers because I think it is always good to have a fallback and hey, sometimes I want to sacrifice graphics for GPU compute :)