Any advice on where to go from here? This console was running dmesg -w to try and catch an intermittent crash… And this is what I got. I am using an el cheapo USB wifi adapter that I’m suspicious of.

Everything was working fine until I rebuilt nixos with Nvidia support… Now my old generations of the OS are crashing after a few minutes (display on, no response to input, keyboard lights don’t respond, SysRq doesn’t work)

  • mvirts@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 months ago

    It’s a 3770k… So super old? 😅 The USB nic is this guy: CF-953AX https://a.aliexpress.com/_mNfj796

    Maybe I should set up a config that doesn’t use a preemptable kernel for when I want faster wifi :P

    Maybe this is my chance to actually fix something kernel related

    Thanks for taking a look at this, your comments are super helpful.

    • StarDreamerEnglish
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      10 months ago

      My suggestion would be to try compiling the kernel locally.its highly likely the one packaged in your distro contains extensions that you don’t have. Doing a local native compile should rule that out pretty quickly without having to disable any additional features.

      • mvirts@lemmy.worldOP
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        10 months ago

        Looks like dmesg isn’t being logged to disk… But I made my font smaller 😹 Definitely more to go on there, this happened while playing Minecraft with a small human so I didn’t dig into it yet. I’m pretty sure the kernel I’m running was built by a derivation that applies some preempt patches so I’ll start there. Ubuntu works fine with the adapter, but it’s also not a preemptable kernel.