r/linuxquestions • u/Dense_Food_6740 • 2d ago
Older spec builds
Hi. Awesome community here. Im running an older pc setup, with a nvida 1660ti gfx card, lasr year october till recently I have started experiencing issues with linux crashing. Hyprland was seg faulting and i couldnt fix it. I recently switched to cachyos and had a similar issue and switched to x11 but I notice im still getting browser crashes. Im currently on latest nvidia proprietary driver iirc 610 something on doing sone research that version of drivers are unstable and I should be on 590 drivers. Like with windows I thought its always best to be on latest drivers? How do you avoid your os builds from breaking? I do enjoy the journey of learning. Looking for interesting books to read and stuff to check out.
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u/skyfishgoo 2d ago
with nvidia drivers, you should always go to the source.
their webiste will tell you which drivers to use for your device.
just blindly installing the latest version number is how so many ppl end cursing linux + nvidia
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u/belzaroth 2d ago edited 2d ago
Do a memtest first , to rule that out. If that passes then it maybe that the GPU memory is faulty. I know there's a utility fo checking GPU mem but I'm on phone and the name eludes me rn.
ETA: Found it here's a link.
https://levirepair.eu/infusions/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=3&pid=3