Bug#989010: linux-image-5.10.0-7-amd64: No display (post, grub, boot messages and desktop) after the upgrade to 5.10.38
Hi Jim,
Just another Debian user here (Geforce 9400M, on Buster). I found
similar reports of not resuming from sleep and system freezes in
Manjaro, Arch, Ubuntu and Fedora discussions, with kernels 5.10 and 5.12
- nothing about damages cards, though. If you still have the Asus GT218
and original PC (not the borrowed one), could you remove the power cable
from the wall for a few minutes and try to boot from a live image,
either a Debian Buster Live image or one of the Fedora Respins, with the
latest upstream kernel? 5.10 is rumored to have some issues, not just
with NVIDIA hardware - perhaps Buster's 4.19 kernel or Fedora's latest
kernel work better. Both Buster and Fedora work fine on my Geforce 9400M.
Regarding video acceleration: it only work on nouveau, not Nvidia
proprietary drivers, but you also have to install firmware-misc-nonfree
for nouveau video acceleration to work. My CPU is too slow to play
1080p60 video, it loses about half the frames, but with mpv --hwdec=auto
it's very smooth and causes just 30% CPU usage.
In any case, it's highly unlikely a Debian issue - I had very frequent
freezes with Fedora since kernel 5.9.0, when a very large patch
improving power management for Nvidia cards, also removing some
workarounds - they were fixed in 5.11, I think, and then backported to
5.10. My next PC will definitely have either Intel or AMD graphics, both
with open-source drivers written by the manufacturers.
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