• I feel sorry for people who don't know how to work with computers

    From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 2 09:28:31 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    Every one of us has relatives who have problems with their computers, some
    of whom we can help (normally if we're close by where they live).

    But each of us has problems with our home-built desktop computers too...

    Case in point:

    Yesterday, for whatever reason, my ten-year-old dual monitor desktop
    display was blurry. huh? I didn't change anything. I didn't even reboot.

    Of course I first checked the "Windows+I | Display" settings but they're correct (why wouldn't they be... I never changed them). I right clicked on
    the My Computer icon to go to "Manage | Device Manager" and the graphics
    driver is the right driver and everything shows it to be OK.

    I go back to "Windows+I | Display" and change the resolution & display &
    size settings back and forth, I turn off the second monitor, I switch to
    the first, I change the resolution, I flip it back, all to no joy.

    In this process, I also check the cabling, I reboot, I clean out the
    graphics card fan and the CPU fan with compressed air, but all to no joy.

    Since I'm on the net, in desperation I delete the graphics card driver, and
    let Windows put whatever driver it wants to put there, which turns out to
    be the same Nvidia graphics card driver that was there before, but now,
    it's no longer blurry. Just like it has been for the past 10 years.

    I still don't know why it happened - but I'm back to joyous use of my PC.
    But this is why I feel sorry for people who don't know how to work them.

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  • From philo@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Tue Jul 2 10:09:14 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 7/2/2024 9:28 AM, Harry S Robins wrote:
    Every one of us has relatives who have problems with their computers, some
    of whom we can help (normally if we're close by where they live).

    But each of us has problems with our home-built desktop computers too...
    Case in point:
    Yesterday, for whatever reason, my ten-year-old dual monitor desktop
    display was blurry. huh? I didn't change anything. I didn't even reboot.

    Of course I first checked the "Windows+I | Display" settings but they're correct (why wouldn't they be... I never changed them). I right clicked on the My Computer icon to go to "Manage | Device Manager" and the graphics driver is the right driver and everything shows it to be OK.
    I go back to  "Windows+I | Display" and change the resolution & display & size settings back and forth, I turn off the second monitor, I switch to
    the first, I change the resolution, I flip it back, all to no joy.

    In this process, I also check the cabling, I reboot, I clean out the
    graphics card fan and the CPU fan with compressed air, but all to no joy.

    Since I'm on the net, in desperation I delete the graphics card driver, and let Windows put whatever driver it wants to put there, which turns out to
    be the same Nvidia graphics card driver that was there before, but now,
    it's no longer blurry. Just like it has been for the past 10 years.

    I still don't know why it happened - but I'm back to joyous use of my PC.
    But this is why I feel sorry for people who don't know how to work them.



    I had a "similar" incident.
    Got in my car, put on my glasses and noticed things were blurry>

    Do I need to get my eyes examined?

    No, I need to put on my "distance" glasses rather than my reading glasses.

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to ...winston on Tue Jul 2 15:22:38 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 14:49:49 -0400, ...winston wrote:

    I still don't know why it happened - but I'm back to joyous use of my PC.
    But this is why I feel sorry for people who don't know how to work them.

    Why did it happen?
    Your driver files or a registry entry for the driver files was corrupted.

    When you uninstalled(you did not delete it) the driver, Windows used the
    same graphic driver inf file on the device to reinstall the required
    files including replacing any corrupted files.

    I think you're correct. It happened again.
    But I had forgot to wipe out all the old stuff. https://i.postimg.cc/rp84JC89/wipe-out-old-drivers.jpg

    I had to backport to an older Nvidia graphics driver to make it work again.
    I suspect the latest Nvidia graphics drivers have a bug my system hits.

    https://superuser.com/questions/1272555/screen-resolution-suddenly-decreased-windows-10

    AMD Drivers:
    https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/drivers.html

    Nvidia Drivers:
    https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

    Nvidia has a choice of "Windows Driver Type: DCH or Standard" where I chose
    the "Standard" and that seems to have fixed the problem for now.

    I'll check back later as it's strange to have a monitor just switch on its
    own to be blurry when it's normally crystal clear at 1920x1080 resolution.

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to Robins on Tue Jul 2 19:23:50 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 2 Jul 2024 15:22:38 -0500, Harry S
    Robins <stanleyrobins@nothere.uk> wrote:

    On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 14:49:49 -0400, ...winston wrote:

    I still don't know why it happened - but I'm back to joyous use of my PC. >>> But this is why I feel sorry for people who don't know how to work them.

    Why did it happen?
    Your driver files or a registry entry for the driver files was corrupted. >>
    When you uninstalled(you did not delete it) the driver, Windows used the
    same graphic driver inf file on the device to reinstall the required
    files including replacing any corrupted files.

    I think you're correct. It happened again.

    I've often wondered... When wonderful people drag a beached whale or 2
    or 3 off the sand and back into the water, don't the same whales beach themselves again? If it's not the whale's mistake and one he's likely
    to make again, then how did it happen in the first place?



    But I had forgot to wipe out all the old stuff. >https://i.postimg.cc/rp84JC89/wipe-out-old-drivers.jpg

    I had to backport to an older Nvidia graphics driver to make it work again.
    I suspect the latest Nvidia graphics drivers have a bug my system hits.

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Tue Jul 2 20:33:49 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 15:22:38 -0500, Harry S Robins wrote:

    Nvidia Drivers:
    https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

    Nvidia has a choice of "Windows Driver Type: DCH or Standard" where I chose the "Standard" and that seems to have fixed the problem for now.

    I'll check back later as it's strange to have a monitor just switch on its own to be blurry when it's normally crystal clear at 1920x1080 resolution.

    There must be something else going on as the backported Nvidia "Standard" driver worked for a while, and then after a reboot, it was back to blurry.

    Even though the monitor has been at 1920x1080 resolution for years, I can't
    get more than 720p out of it. And the mouse wheel stopped scrolling well
    too. I don't know why the mouse wheel would suddenly require more turns to
    go to the same distance, but I'll tackle that one later as the blurry
    graphics are the bigger problem for now.

    For an older desktop, do you use the "Standard" or "DCH" Nvidia drivers?

    Here's an output from the Nvidia System Information program.
    NVIDIA System Information report created on: 07/02/2024 13:24:00
    System name: Harold

    [Display]
    DirectX version: 12.0
    GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    Driver version: 556.12
    Driver Type: DCH
    Direct3D feature level: 11_0
    CUDA Cores: 640
    Core clock: 1019 MHz
    Memory data rate: 5.40 Gbps
    Memory interface: 128-bit
    Memory bandwidth: 86.40 GB/s
    Total available graphics memory: 10239 MB
    Dedicated video memory: 2048 MB GDDR5
    System video memory: 0 MB
    Shared system memory: 8191 MB
    Video BIOS version: 82.07.84.00.31
    IRQ: Not used
    Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2

    [Components]

    NvGFTrayPluginr.dll 2.11.4.125 NVIDIA GeForce Experience
    NvGFTrayPlugin.dll 2.11.4.125 NVIDIA GeForce Experience
    nvui.dll 8.17.15.5612 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
    nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.15.5612 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
    nvxdbat.dll 8.17.15.5612 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
    nvxdapix.dll 8.17.15.5612 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
    NVCPL.DLL 8.17.15.5612 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
    nvCplUIR.dll 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
    nvCplUI.exe 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
    nvWSSR.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Workstation Server
    nvWSS.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Workstation Server
    nvViTvSR.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Video Server
    nvViTvS.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Video Server
    nvMoblSR.dll 6.14.13.4201 NVIDIA Mobile Server
    nvMoblS.dll 6.14.13.4201 NVIDIA Mobile Server
    nvLicensingS.dll 6.14.15.5612 NVIDIA Licensing Server
    nvDevToolSR.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Licensing Server
    nvDevToolS.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
    nvDispSR.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Display Server
    NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.13.4201 NVIDIA Media Center Library
    nvDispS.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Display Server
    NVCUDA64.DLL 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA CUDA 12.5.85 driver
    nvGameSR.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
    nvGameS.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Wed Jul 3 01:45:01 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 7/2/2024 9:33 PM, Harry S Robins wrote:
    On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 15:22:38 -0500, Harry S Robins wrote:

    Nvidia Drivers:
    https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

    Nvidia has a choice of "Windows Driver Type: DCH or Standard" where I chose >> the "Standard" and that seems to have fixed the problem for now.

    I'll check back later as it's strange to have a monitor just switch on its >> own to be blurry when it's normally crystal clear at 1920x1080 resolution.

    There must be something else going on as the backported Nvidia "Standard" driver worked for a while, and then after a reboot, it was back to blurry.

    Even though the monitor has been at 1920x1080 resolution for years, I can't get more than 720p out of it. And the mouse wheel stopped scrolling well
    too. I don't know why the mouse wheel would suddenly require more turns to
    go to the same distance, but I'll tackle that one later as the blurry graphics are the bigger problem for now.

    For an older desktop, do you use the "Standard" or "DCH" Nvidia drivers?

    Here's an output from the Nvidia System Information program.
    NVIDIA System Information report created on: 07/02/2024 13:24:00
    System name: Harold

    [Display]
    DirectX version: 12.0 GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    Driver version: 556.12
    Driver Type: DCH
    Direct3D feature level: 11_0
    CUDA Cores: 640 Core clock: 1019 MHz Memory data rate: 5.40 Gbps
    Memory interface: 128-bit Memory bandwidth: 86.40 GB/s
    Total available graphics memory: 10239 MB
    Dedicated video memory: 2048 MB GDDR5
    System video memory: 0 MB
    Shared system memory: 8191 MB
    Video BIOS version: 82.07.84.00.31
    IRQ: Not used
    Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2

    [Components]

    NvGFTrayPluginr.dll 2.11.4.125 NVIDIA GeForce Experience
    NvGFTrayPlugin.dll 2.11.4.125 NVIDIA GeForce Experience
    nvui.dll 8.17.15.5612 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
    nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.15.5612 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
    nvxdbat.dll 8.17.15.5612 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
    nvxdapix.dll 8.17.15.5612 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
    NVCPL.DLL 8.17.15.5612 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
    nvCplUIR.dll 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
    nvCplUI.exe 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
    nvWSSR.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Workstation Server
    nvWSS.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Workstation Server
    nvViTvSR.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Video Server
    nvViTvS.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Video Server
    nvMoblSR.dll 6.14.13.4201 NVIDIA Mobile Server
    nvMoblS.dll 6.14.13.4201 NVIDIA Mobile Server
    nvLicensingS.dll 6.14.15.5612 NVIDIA Licensing Server
    nvDevToolSR.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Licensing Server
    nvDevToolS.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
    nvDispSR.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Display Server
    NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.13.4201 NVIDIA Media Center Library
    nvDispS.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA Display Server
    NVCUDA64.DLL 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA CUDA 12.5.85 driver
    nvGameSR.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
    nvGameS.dll 32.0.15.5612 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

    https://www.techspot.com/products/graphics-cards/nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-ti.99815/

    February 18, 2014 # Somewhere around ten years old.

    Likely does not have a GOP videoBIOS to go with the UEFI BIOS.
    So we have a few more variables to play with

    UEFI or CSM
    GOP or legacy VideoBIOS "standard", GOP working with UEFI
    DCH or Standard (NVidia uses "containerization" for its driver, that is all I know)
    InSupport or OutOfSupport (Probably six years of real support, a few more years of DontCare)

    On my GTX1080, I'm on driver 536.23 (issued 6/8/2023) on Win10.
    My "dxdiag" status is:

    DirectDraw Acceleration: Enabled (2D, BitBlt, Bresenham)
    Direct3D Acceleration: Enabled (3D )
    AGP Texture Acceleration: Enabled [On a PCI Express card??? It's not a GART. Some other kind of mapping]

    A good deal of activity on the desktop, may be accessing the
    OpenGL or later (Vulcan?) standard. For example, Ryzen Master
    (an overclocker tool, that can be used just for monitoring),
    it has an intermediary blurry display routine it uses, which
    I associate with pretending to bring up OpenGL to display
    the hardware information. This is an affectation, not a necessity.

    NVidia has a control panel. The W10/W11 have the capability to load
    an "NVidia App" or similar, to go with a "bare bones catalog.update
    driver". In there, are some rotating elements, like a video
    tuner and the like. I would examine the visual output of those,
    as the output to some extent is determined by NVidia developers.

    [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/SsgXcd8j/GTX1080-control-panel-536.gif

    NVIDIA System Information report
    System name: GREGORE

    [Display]
    DirectX version: 12.0
    GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
    Driver version: 536.23
    Driver Type: DCH
    Direct3D feature level: 12_1
    CUDA Cores: 2560
    Core clock: 1620 MHz
    Memory data rate: 10.01 Gbps
    Memory interface: 256-bit
    Memory bandwidth: 320.32 GB/s
    Total available graphics memory: 40926 MB
    Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB GDDR5X
    System video memory: 0 MB
    Shared system memory: 32734 MB
    Video BIOS version: 86.04.60.40.24
    IRQ: Not used
    Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen3
    Device Id: 10DE 1B80 145119DA
    Part Number: G413 0000

    [Components]

    nvui.dll 8.17.15.3623 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.15.3623 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvxdbat.dll 8.17.15.3623 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvxdapix.dll 8.17.15.3623 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component NVCPL.DLL 8.17.15.3623 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvCplUIR.dll 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
    nvCplUI.exe 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
    nvWSSR.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Workstation Server
    nvWSS.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Workstation Server
    nvViTvSR.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Video Server
    nvViTvS.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Video Server
    nvLicensingS.dll 6.14.15.3623 NVIDIA Licensing Server
    nvDevToolSR.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Licensing Server
    nvDevToolS.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
    nvDispSR.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Display Server
    nvDispS.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Display Server
    PhysX 09.21.0713 NVIDIA PhysX
    NVCUDA64.DLL 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA CUDA 12.2.79 driver
    nvGameSR.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
    nvGameS.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

    DXDiag Display tab says the driver model is: WDDM 2.7

    whereas on a Win11 machine, the AMD driver (Zen8) is WDDM 3.1 .

    I believe I barely got by on W10, with a WDDM 1.1 driver, when
    the XDDM driver for the GMA graphics "was not good enough"
    for 22H2 to install. Any sort of WDDM driver should work, more
    or less. Using the HD6450 card passed well enough, for the upgrade
    install to progress.

    My 1080 (WDDM 2.7) is likely out of support now, so the
    driver versioning in that sense is unlikely to change.

    [Picture] GPU-Z Version 2.55

    https://i.postimg.cc/rwzKLxBL/GPU-Z-Examples.gif

    Paul

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to Paul on Wed Jul 3 01:18:35 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 01:45:01 -0400, Paul wrote:

    https://www.techspot.com/products/graphics-cards/nvidia-geforce-gtx-750-ti.99815/
    February 18, 2014 # Somewhere around ten years old.

    I pulled it out of another PC which was being upgraded, and used it to
    upgrade my PC - probably around two or three years ago, as I recall.

    Likely does not have a GOP videoBIOS to go with the UEFI BIOS.
    So we have a few more variables to play with

    UEFI or CSM
    GOP or legacy VideoBIOS "standard", GOP working with UEFI
    DCH or Standard (NVidia uses "containerization" for its driver, that is all I know)
    InSupport or OutOfSupport (Probably six years of real support, a few more years of DontCare)

    I have the old style BIOS in this homebuilt desktop PC.
    Not UEFI. I am going to assume DCH or Standard won't matter (for now).
    Although I'll probably default to Standard when there is a choice.

    On my GTX1080, I'm on driver 536.23 (issued 6/8/2023) on Win10.
    My "dxdiag" status is:

    DirectDraw Acceleration: Enabled (2D, BitBlt, Bresenham)
    Direct3D Acceleration: Enabled (3D )
    AGP Texture Acceleration: Enabled [On a PCI Express card??? It's not a GART. Some other kind of mapping]

    My dxdiag reports for the Display tab
    DirectX Version: DirectX 12
    DirectDraw Acceleration: Enabled
    Direct3D Acceleration: Enabled
    AGP Texture Acceleration: Enabled
    Main Driver: basicdisplay.sys v10.0.19041.3636 6/20/2006 19:00:00

    A good deal of activity on the desktop, may be accessing the
    OpenGL or later (Vulcan?) standard. For example, Ryzen Master
    (an overclocker tool, that can be used just for monitoring),
    it has an intermediary blurry display routine it uses, which
    I associate with pretending to bring up OpenGL to display
    the hardware information. This is an affectation, not a necessity.

    NVidia has a control panel. The W10/W11 have the capability to load
    an "NVidia App" or similar, to go with a "bare bones catalog.update
    driver". In there, are some rotating elements, like a video
    tuner and the like. I would examine the visual output of those,
    as the output to some extent is determined by NVidia developers.

    [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/SsgXcd8j/GTX1080-control-panel-536.gif

    NVIDIA System Information report
    System name: GREGORE

    [Display]
    DirectX version: 12.0
    GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
    Driver version: 536.23
    Driver Type: DCH
    Direct3D feature level: 12_1
    CUDA Cores: 2560
    Core clock: 1620 MHz
    Memory data rate: 10.01 Gbps
    Memory interface: 256-bit
    Memory bandwidth: 320.32 GB/s
    Total available graphics memory: 40926 MB
    Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB GDDR5X
    System video memory: 0 MB
    Shared system memory: 32734 MB
    Video BIOS version: 86.04.60.40.24
    IRQ: Not used
    Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen3
    Device Id: 10DE 1B80 145119DA
    Part Number: G413 0000

    [Components]

    nvui.dll 8.17.15.3623 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.15.3623 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvxdbat.dll 8.17.15.3623 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvxdapix.dll 8.17.15.3623 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component NVCPL.DLL 8.17.15.3623 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component nvCplUIR.dll 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
    nvCplUI.exe 8.1.940.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
    nvWSSR.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Workstation Server
    nvWSS.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Workstation Server
    nvViTvSR.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Video Server
    nvViTvS.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Video Server
    nvLicensingS.dll 6.14.15.3623 NVIDIA Licensing Server
    nvDevToolSR.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Licensing Server
    nvDevToolS.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
    nvDispSR.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Display Server
    nvDispS.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA Display Server
    PhysX 09.21.0713 NVIDIA PhysX
    NVCUDA64.DLL 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA CUDA 12.2.79 driver
    nvGameSR.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
    nvGameS.dll 31.0.15.3623 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

    DXDiag Display tab says the driver model is: WDDM 2.7

    whereas on a Win11 machine, the AMD driver (Zen8) is WDDM 3.1 .

    I believe I barely got by on W10, with a WDDM 1.1 driver, when
    the XDDM driver for the GMA graphics "was not good enough"
    for 22H2 to install. Any sort of WDDM driver should work, more
    or less. Using the HD6450 card passed well enough, for the upgrade
    install to progress.

    My 1080 (WDDM 2.7) is likely out of support now, so the
    driver versioning in that sense is unlikely to change.

    [Picture] GPU-Z Version 2.55

    https://i.postimg.cc/rwzKLxBL/GPU-Z-Examples.gif

    I don't know why every time I look away from this machine, in the past two
    days now, it goes to a lower resolution. I keep replacing the driver, and
    that fixes it for a while, and then it goes back to lower resolution.

    Still working it... Lately, I pity people like me. :)

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  • From Bill@21:1/5 to philo on Wed Jul 3 08:16:39 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 7/2/2024 11:09 AM, philo wrote:
    On 7/2/2024 9:28 AM, Harry S Robins wrote:
    Every one of us has relatives who have problems with their computers,
    some
    of whom we can help (normally if we're close by where they live).

    But each of us has problems with our home-built desktop computers too...
    Case in point:
    Yesterday, for whatever reason, my ten-year-old dual monitor desktop
    display was blurry. huh? I didn't change anything. I didn't even reboot.

    Of course I first checked the "Windows+I | Display" settings but they're
    correct (why wouldn't they be... I never changed them). I right
    clicked on
    the My Computer icon to go to "Manage | Device Manager" and the graphics
    driver is the right driver and everything shows it to be OK.
    I go back to  "Windows+I | Display" and change the resolution & display & >> size settings back and forth, I turn off the second monitor, I switch to
    the first, I change the resolution, I flip it back, all to no joy.

    In this process, I also check the cabling, I reboot, I clean out the
    graphics card fan and the CPU fan with compressed air, but all to no joy.

    Since I'm on the net, in desperation I delete the graphics card
    driver, and
    let Windows put whatever driver it wants to put there, which turns out to
    be the same Nvidia graphics card driver that was there before, but now,
    it's no longer blurry. Just like it has been for the past 10 years.

    I still don't know why it happened - but I'm back to joyous use of my PC.
    But this is why I feel sorry for people who don't know how to work them.

    Those are the people that stand in line at Apple, and (happily?) pay for
    the privilege. I know some.

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  • From Andrew@21:1/5 to Bill on Wed Jul 3 14:40:45 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    Bill wrote on Wed, 3 Jul 2024 08:16:39 -0400 :

    I still don't know why it happened - but I'm back to joyous use of my PC. >>> But this is why I feel sorry for people who don't know how to work them.

    Those are the people that stand in line at Apple, and (happily?) pay for
    the privilege. I know some.

    Women bought Virginia Slims in droves too, because the power of MARKETING
    told them that by smoking their own cigarettes, they're liberated from men!

    Apple MARKETING is as brilliant as Big Tobacco was in appealing to the
    masses of herd animals who don't know the first thing about technology.

    Case in point:
    Apple advertises how great its operating system support is, right?
    And yet, Apple has the *worst* OS hotfix support in the entire industry.

    Now tell that to an Apple herd animal and they'll squirm and deny it.
    And yet, it's true.
    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=15550&group=misc.phone.mobile.iphone#15550>

    The fact is that Microsoft & Linux have the best OS hotfix support.
    And in terms of smartphones, Samsung & Google are far better than iOS.

    Want proof?

    1. Every operating system vendor EXCEPT APPLE fully supports multiple
    operating systems simultaneously; Apple fully supports only one!
    <https://screenrant.com/apple-product-security-update-lifespan/>
    <https://hothardware.com/news/apple-admits-only-fully-patches-security-flaws-in-latest-os-releases>
    <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/apple-clarifies-security-update-policy-only-the-latest-oses-are-fully-patched/>

    2. Google/Samsung fully support up to 7 operating systems simultaneously.
    <https://www.idownloadblog.com/2024/06/06/apple-iphone-updates-support-timeframe-united-kingdom/>

    3. Google/Samsung promise at least 7 years of that full OS hotfix support.
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/technology/personaltech/smartphones-software-update-ios-android.html>

    4. Apple, when forced to disclose their policy, can only promise 5 years.
    <https://www.androidauthority.com/iphone-software-support-commitment-3449135/>

    6. Until iOS 16, Apple's primitive monolithic OS didn't even have the
    concept of an operating system patch - they had to create a new OS!
    <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201224>

    7. Meanwhile, Google, since Android 10, has been monthly fully updating
    over two dozen core operating system packages on every single Android
    10+ phones on the Internet by default, no matter how old they
    are and no matter how many billions of phones that is (and growing).
    <https://www.androidheadlines.com/2022/01/google-monthly-changelog-play-system-updates.html>

    Now back to your observation, which is no different than my observation
    that millions of herd animals were taught that smoking a ladies' faggot
    somehow "liberated" them from having to buy cigarettes designed for men.

    Apple is brilliant at one thing and one thing only: MARKETING
    (HINT: Nobody in high tech has a lower R&D spend than Apple, which has
    always been the case since Steve Job days. R&D is not what Apple does).

    No wonder the iPhone is the most exploited device in human history:
    <https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog>

    Even the iPods, are being exploited as we speak, all around the world:
    <https://www.headphonesty.com/2024/07/apple-fixes-airpods-flaw-users-risk>

    And, get this, for more than a decade, Apple hasn't bothered to put the simplest of checks into hundreds of thousands of libraries - which -
    surprise surprise - showed up yesterday as the biggest exploit in history!
    <https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/apple-cocoapods-bugs-expose-apps-code-injection>

    Over three million Apple (iOS & macOS) apps have been exploited for a
    decade and are still being exploited as we speak - in the millions!

    All because Apple is all marketing, and the lowest R&D in the industry.
    PT Barnum was right.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Wed Jul 3 10:54:59 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 7/3/2024 2:18 AM, Harry S Robins wrote:


    I don't know why every time I look away from this machine, in the past two days now, it goes to a lower resolution. I keep replacing the driver, and that fixes it for a while, and then it goes back to lower resolution.

    Still working it... Lately, I pity people like me. :)

    I can see signs in Google, of a "competition" between the hardware company driver and the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter.

    https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/amd-graphics-card-drivers-keep-getting-disabled-and-defaulting/td-p/671605

    It's not necessarily Windows Update (but it could be). Maybe the
    hardware and the driver behavior (an older driver), is the trigger
    for this happening, but I haven't seen a definitive thread yet where
    they fixed it via "positive control".

    In theory, you can stop driver updates from coming into the
    machine via Windows Update, and then instead, jam in the driver
    you think should work.

    But at least the behavior, of the MBDA forcing the hardware to non-native resolution, some time during a session, that's been seen before and
    more than one person experienced it.

    It's like my crashing problem. I can find fucking evidence
    all over the place, but no one to confirm how the scheme works
    from a technical perspective. I am stable at the moment, but
    not out of an abundance of cleverness -- I used a brute force cure.
    The annoying part, is equipment apparently enters my crash state,
    after you've owned it for a period of time. Almost as if the
    BIOS behavior is "adaptive" and it "learns bad things". This is
    what happens when some idiot changes the BIOS into a "completely
    autonomous has-a-life-of-its-own" thing. Great. Fahrvergnügen.
    Crash test dummy. You can't really expect to fix this via
    some amount of "warranty returns" -- that's why I am not doing that.
    Whatever is wrong, will only come back, unless the wanker who
    did it, fixes it. What did it ? AGESA code ? BIOS code ? Windows code ?
    Isn't fault isolation fun ? NO. Not when it's this dreadful. Where
    is my log ? Where is my logging capability ?

    But at least I'll get my drive encrypted and my files
    put in the Cloud, if I'm not "watching the shop".

    Paul

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  • From Wilf@21:1/5 to Bill on Wed Jul 3 16:41:04 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 03/07/2024 at 13:16, Bill wrote:
    On 7/2/2024 11:09 AM, philo wrote:
    On 7/2/2024 9:28 AM, Harry S Robins wrote:
    Every one of us has relatives who have problems with their computers,
    some
    of whom we can help (normally if we're close by where they live).

    But each of us has problems with our home-built desktop computers too... >>> Case in point:
    Yesterday, for whatever reason, my ten-year-old dual monitor desktop
    display was blurry. huh? I didn't change anything. I didn't even reboot. >>>
    Of course I first checked the "Windows+I | Display" settings but they're >>> correct (why wouldn't they be... I never changed them). I right
    clicked on
    the My Computer icon to go to "Manage | Device Manager" and the graphics >>> driver is the right driver and everything shows it to be OK.
    I go back to  "Windows+I | Display" and change the resolution & display & >>> size settings back and forth, I turn off the second monitor, I switch to >>> the first, I change the resolution, I flip it back, all to no joy.

    In this process, I also check the cabling, I reboot, I clean out the
    graphics card fan and the CPU fan with compressed air, but all to no joy. >>>
    Since I'm on the net, in desperation I delete the graphics card
    driver, and
    let Windows put whatever driver it wants to put there, which turns out to >>> be the same Nvidia graphics card driver that was there before, but now,
    it's no longer blurry. Just like it has been for the past 10 years.

    I still don't know why it happened - but I'm back to joyous use of my PC. >>> But this is why I feel sorry for people who don't know how to work them.

    Those are the people that stand in line at Apple, and (happily?) pay for
    the privilege. I know some.


    Well, there you are. I think I'm pretty good with managing my Windows
    computer after a lifetime in IT / software development, but I also like
    my iPhone.

    --
    Wilf

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Paul on Wed Jul 3 17:14:03 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    Paul wrote:

    I can see signs in Google, of a "competition" between the hardware company driver and the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter.

    https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/amd-graphics-card-drivers-keep-getting-disabled-and-defaulting/td-p/671605

    I've had a similar "war" between a Microsoft provided graphics driver
    and a Lenovo provided driver, I just pretend I can't hear the crossfire.

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to ...winston on Wed Jul 3 23:22:00 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 02:40:56 -0400, ...winston wrote:

    A recurring problem even with the same, newer, standard or DCH drivers
    may not be 'driver' related. The hardware(graphic or display) could be
    a contributor.

    I agree there is something very strange going on with my Windows 10 PC. https://i.postimg.cc/nL3fqs5H/display01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/XqQ5bk1R/display02.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/W1n1f1Ky/display03.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/v8qDGTZw/display04.jpg

    One hint is that the Nvidia utility fails to install the driver if I
    manually tell it to do that - but the utility gives no reason for the fail.

    Since the monitor display reverts to 720p from 1080i again and again in the past three days, and since the weather is hot, I thought it could have been
    the graphics card but MSI Afterburner & GPU-Z show nothing unusual (particularly the GPU temperature but it's well within range).

    But it may be a hardware problem nonetheless.
    I just don't yet have a good tool to debug if it is a hardware problem.

    I've noticed the input to the monitor "appears" to be locked at 720p when
    the problem happens, but I can get the monitor input back to 1080p if I uninstall all video drivers in the Device Manager (deleting the old ones)
    and then I have about 30 seconds (or so) to choose 1920x1019 before it disappears and only gives me three 720p options in the Display resolution pulldown choice.

    If I'm slow, the option that shows up as 1080p disappears within less than
    a minute consistently - but if I select it within that minute, then it
    stays. Yes. I know this is rather weird.

    What I need is a good display card debugging utility.

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Wed Jul 3 23:38:11 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 17:14:03 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

    I can see signs in Google, of a "competition" between the hardware company >> driver and the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter.

    https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/amd-graphics-card-drivers-keep-getting-disabled-and-defaulting/td-p/671605

    I've had a similar "war" between a Microsoft provided graphics driver
    and a Lenovo provided driver, I just pretend I can't hear the crossfire.

    Agree with you that, for all I know it could be caused by a Windows update,
    as the mouse scroll wheel reverted to a slow setting at the very same time.

    Even in Irfanview, when I scrolled with the mouse wheel, normally one turn
    is one image but it reverted to multiple turns to scroll to the next image.

    I haven't changed the mouse scroll in probably five or more years.
    Yet the mouse scroll went slow at the same time the display went blurry.

    Web pages took an inordinate number of scrolls of the mouse wheel too.
    So whatever screwed up the display drivers also screwed up the mouse.

    However it was much easier to recover from the mouse setting getting wiped
    out. The display settings keep reverting to 720p instead of 1080i.

    My current workaround is to open the device manager and right click on
    "Display adapters > NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti" and "Uninstall device"
    (making sure to check the box to get rid of everything).

    At that point, I have about 30 seconds to right click on the desktop to
    select the "Display settings" context menu to set the "Display resolution"
    to "1920x1080 (Recommended)" but after about 30 seconds, it reverts to only having three choices of "1280x720 (Recommended)", "1176x664" & "800x600".

    The monitor has a handheld remote control, where the only input I'm using
    is the HDMI input (which is connected by HDMI cable to the "Nvidia FeForce
    GTX 750 Ti" graphics card).

    If I use the handheld remote control to query the monitor to ask the
    monitor what it thinks is the input it's getting from the Nvidia graphics
    card, consistently it says "HDMI 720p" when it's screwed up and "HDMI
    1080i" when I manage to get it working (I have only about 30 seconds to
    make the switchover in the Windows rightclick Display settings context).

    I pity all of us. :)
    https://i.postimg.cc/nL3fqs5H/display01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/XqQ5bk1R/display02.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/W1n1f1Ky/display03.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/v8qDGTZw/display04.jpg

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  • From Andrew@21:1/5 to Wilf on Thu Jul 4 06:05:27 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    Wilf wrote on Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:41:04 +0100 :

    Those are the people that stand in line at Apple, and (happily?) pay for
    the privilege. I know some.

    Well, there you are. I think I'm pretty good with managing my Windows computer after a lifetime in IT / software development, but I also like
    my iPhone.

    As long as you actually know what you're doing...

    Nothing wrong with that as marketing made clueless women buy Virginia Slims
    in the hopes that this herd mentality will make them equal to male smokers.

    But are you aware that the iPhone is the most exploited phone in history?
    <https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog>

    And that Apple has the worst full operating system support in the industry?
    <https://screenrant.com/apple-product-security-update-lifespan/>
    <https://hothardware.com/news/apple-admits-only-fully-patches-security-flaws-in-latest-os-releases>
    <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/apple-clarifies-security-update-policy-only-the-latest-oses-are-fully-patched/>

    Or did you buy it only because Apple advertised YELLOW was a cool color?
    <https://youtu.be/cJ9swRs13UA>

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Thu Jul 4 01:17:22 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 7/4/2024 12:38 AM, Harry S Robins wrote:
    On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 17:14:03 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

    I can see signs in Google, of a "competition" between the hardware company >>> driver and the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter.

    https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/amd-graphics-card-drivers-keep-getting-disabled-and-defaulting/td-p/671605

    I've had a similar "war" between a Microsoft provided graphics driver and a Lenovo provided driver, I just pretend I can't hear the crossfire.

    Agree with you that, for all I know it could be caused by a Windows update, as the mouse scroll wheel reverted to a slow setting at the very same time.

    Even in Irfanview, when I scrolled with the mouse wheel, normally one turn
    is one image but it reverted to multiple turns to scroll to the next image.

    I haven't changed the mouse scroll in probably five or more years.
    Yet the mouse scroll went slow at the same time the display went blurry.

    Web pages took an inordinate number of scrolls of the mouse wheel too. So whatever screwed up the display drivers also screwed up the mouse.

    However it was much easier to recover from the mouse setting getting wiped out. The display settings keep reverting to 720p instead of 1080i.

    My current workaround is to open the device manager and right click on "Display adapters > NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti" and "Uninstall device"
    (making sure to check the box to get rid of everything).

    At that point, I have about 30 seconds to right click on the desktop to select the "Display settings" context menu to set the "Display resolution"
    to "1920x1080 (Recommended)" but after about 30 seconds, it reverts to only having three choices of "1280x720 (Recommended)", "1176x664" & "800x600".

    The monitor has a handheld remote control, where the only input I'm using
    is the HDMI input (which is connected by HDMI cable to the "Nvidia FeForce GTX 750 Ti" graphics card).

    If I use the handheld remote control to query the monitor to ask the
    monitor what it thinks is the input it's getting from the Nvidia graphics card, consistently it says "HDMI 720p" when it's screwed up and "HDMI
    1080i" when I manage to get it working (I have only about 30 seconds to
    make the switchover in the Windows rightclick Display settings context).

    I pity all of us. :)
    https://i.postimg.cc/nL3fqs5H/display01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/XqQ5bk1R/display02.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/W1n1f1Ky/display03.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/v8qDGTZw/display04.jpg

    Your picture number 02 there is also some weirdness. It's not often
    you see a claim a monitor is using an interleaved mode. Almost
    like the display device in question is a TV set. In 2024 even an LCD TV set shouldn't be doing that. Digital TV is likely to be progressive (it's an
    MPG video stream or similar), and the display does not need ATSC CRT tube support :-)

    You can try the logging control option here, and see if you can get more
    than just a dull dull "driver install failed" for the core driver. No guarantees of course -- we're dealing with non-communicative devs here.

    https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3171/~/how-to-enable-nvidia-graphics-driver-and-geforce-experience-installer-logging

    I've already told my story long ago, about being a hardware guy and
    writing code, and noticing that proper error handling meant looking
    in two places. An easy-to-get "terse" error, like a minus one (
    about the equivalent of "Something Happened", and the next layer
    down had a detailed error code. So in my utility I was writing, I
    went the extra distance to show the actual error. And I asked my
    guys, why some of our system stuff was blowing -1 and not being
    honest about root cause. They just looked at me and said "we don't
    bother doing the extra work for that". They were quite happy blowing
    -1 error codes into the air like confetti :-) And that's how it is.

    *******

    If I were at your house right now, my next move would be:

    1) Spare disk drive.
    2) Grab Win10 older release DVD. Disconnect network. Install.
    3) Install the Geforce Experience package that was failing.
    4) Examine the details, such as "dxdiag" and see if the driver
    is a WDDM driver (as close to 3.1 as you can get, 3.1 is the
    newest I know of, on my oldish vid cards). A WDDM of 1.1 or so,
    is getting close to the limit for 22H2 and may cause problems.

    The purpose of an exercise like this, is to see what the
    conditions look like when the stuff is working. And see if you
    can spot the "rough edge" it is tripping over.

    I've noticed catalog.update.microsoft.com, has some stuff removed
    for proper Win10 support. That's why the other machine right now,
    the Win10 is missing X79 labeling of some entries in Device Manager.
    It used to do that long ago, they fixed it, now it is doing it
    again (because they threw away the support to make it work).

    NVidia does blacklist at the OS level (they were supporting WIn7
    and preventing a driver installing on Win8.1 as an example), but
    then why would the rest of the package install ?

    Paul

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  • From Zaidy036@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Thu Jul 4 11:05:46 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 7/4/2024 12:22 AM, Harry S Robins wrote:
    On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 02:40:56 -0400, ...winston wrote:

    A recurring problem even with the same, newer, standard or DCH drivers
    may not be 'driver' related.  The hardware(graphic or display) could
    be a contributor.

    <snip>

    Since you are not progressing I would suggest shutting off PC and make
    sure all connections are "good" by manipulating the graphics card and
    cable connections.

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 4 10:39:48 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:05:46 -0400, Zaidy036 wrote:

    Since you are not progressing I would suggest shutting off PC and make
    sure all connections are "good" by manipulating the graphics card and
    cable connections.

    Thanks for that advice, where I'm happy to report, for the first time in something like three days, the daily morning bootup came in at 1080i.

    For the first time in days, it defaulted upon reboot to the desired
    "1920x1080 (Recommended)" resolution, which doesn't even show up as a
    choice when the daily morning bootup came in at "HDMI 720p" yesterday. https://i.postimg.cc/cCQ3Ljcz/display05.jpg

    So now I'm back to dual monitors and the correct resolution on the main
    monitor (which is a biggie so I need it for my tired old eyes to see).

    To your concern about hardware, I also haven't figured out if this is a hardware or software problem, but the fact it works after jiggling only the software, indicates to me that it's a software issue that suddenly came up.

    Also to your helpful point about intermittent hardware issues, long ago I pulled and yanked and wiggled everything and I even swapped an HDMI cable
    from a different setup and long ago I blew the can of air on the graphics
    card fan (as it is hot outside these days but GPU-Z & MSI Afterburner show nothing abnormal in the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti temperature readings.

    I think it's software but I do agree it seems to have hardware aspects.
    I am looking for a GPU tester that is better than MSI Afterburner/GPU-Z.

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to Paul on Thu Jul 4 11:45:32 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    Paul wrote on Thu, 4 Jul 2024 01:17:22 -0400 :

    Your picture number 02 there is also some weirdness. It's not often
    you see a claim a monitor is using an interleaved mode. Almost
    like the display device in question is a TV set. In 2024 even an LCD TV set shouldn't be doing that. Digital TV is likely to be progressive (it's an
    MPG video stream or similar), and the display does not need ATSC CRT tube support :-)

    You can try the logging control option here, and see if you can get more
    than just a dull dull "driver install failed" for the core driver. No guarantees of course -- we're dealing with non-communicative devs here.

    https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3171/~/how-to-enable-nvidia-graphics-driver-and-geforce-experience-installer-logging

    I've already told my story long ago, about being a hardware guy and
    writing code, and noticing that proper error handling meant looking
    in two places. An easy-to-get "terse" error, like a minus one (
    about the equivalent of "Something Happened", and the next layer
    down had a detailed error code. So in my utility I was writing, I
    went the extra distance to show the actual error. And I asked my
    guys, why some of our system stuff was blowing -1 and not being
    honest about root cause. They just looked at me and said "we don't
    bother doing the extra work for that". They were quite happy blowing
    -1 error codes into the air like confetti :-) And that's how it is.

    *******

    If I were at your house right now, my next move would be:

    1) Spare disk drive.
    2) Grab Win10 older release DVD. Disconnect network. Install.
    3) Install the Geforce Experience package that was failing.
    4) Examine the details, such as "dxdiag" and see if the driver
    is a WDDM driver (as close to 3.1 as you can get, 3.1 is the
    newest I know of, on my oldish vid cards). A WDDM of 1.1 or so,
    is getting close to the limit for 22H2 and may cause problems.

    The purpose of an exercise like this, is to see what the
    conditions look like when the stuff is working. And see if you
    can spot the "rough edge" it is tripping over.

    I've noticed catalog.update.microsoft.com, has some stuff removed
    for proper Win10 support. That's why the other machine right now,
    the Win10 is missing X79 labeling of some entries in Device Manager.
    It used to do that long ago, they fixed it, now it is doing it
    again (because they threw away the support to make it work).

    NVidia does blacklist at the OS level (they were supporting WIn7
    and preventing a driver installing on Win8.1 as an example), but
    then why would the rest of the package install ?

    Thank you for all that good backtracking & logging advice, and especially I appreciate that you noticed the display, when it's working again, shows up using the display's hand-held remote control, as 1080i (interlaced).

    Not 1080p.

    I do not know why it does that but today, for the first time in days, it
    booted directly to the proper "1920x1080 (Recommended)" display resolution (like it had been doing for years prior to about three or so days ago). https://i.postimg.cc/cCQ3Ljcz/display05.jpg

    I'm leery of touching too much, lest I disturb the sleeping random PC god
    that caused this disruption days ago, but I looked into my screenshots from
    the prior days and I noticed that the Nvidia driver yesterday was shown as
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    Driver Date: 6/25/2024, Driver Version: 32.0.15.5612
    But today, where it's working, the driver has been "back ported" to
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    Driver Date: 3/17/2022, Driver Version: 30.0.15.1215

    I just took this snapshot for you of that revelation, which, I have to
    admit I don't remember how I got either driver (as I did so many things). https://i.postimg.cc/W3xhRPQZ/display06.jpg

    I thought it might have been a hardware issue (as it's hot outside), but
    MSI Afterburner shows now abnormal temperature, and neither does GPU-Z. https://i.postimg.cc/3RGv9BRY/display07.jpg

    Here are the current GPU-Z sensor readings, which were similar yesterday. https://i.postimg.cc/WzZr5P29/display08.jpg

    For what it's worth, GPU-Z says "Yes" to the line titled "DCH/UWD Driver". https://i.postimg.cc/C1j6X9LK/display09.jpg

    I'm afraid to touch it, but the Nvidia Control Panel which shows up in the right click on the desktop context menu shows those odd 1080i options for
    the highest resolution on the main monitor (an old but large Sharp
    LC-45GD7U display) but only at lower resolutions does the "p" show up). https://i.postimg.cc/SNnG3wKf/display10.jpg

    Yesterday I had randomly removed the second display, which is a newer but smaller monitor, but that second display doesn't seem to be the issue as
    it's set to "1920x1080 (native)" and which doesn't seem to be the problem. https://i.postimg.cc/nVWFYwwD/display11.jpg

    As an aside, I had to look up what native means.
    It means that's the fixed number of real pixels the monitor can control.

    So that means the native (fixed number of pixels) my two monitors have are
    Sharp LC-45GD7U fixed pixels apparently are "1080i,1920 x 1080 (native)"
    Whereas the LG monitor fixed pixels apparently are "1920 x 1080 (native)"

    I will turn on the logging, as you suggested, and even more to your suggeswtion, I think the "solution" (accidentally) was to revert from the Nvidia 6/25/24 32.0.15.5612 driver back (somehow) to the much older
    Nvidia 3/17/2022 30.0./15.1215 driver instead (which is working now). https://i.postimg.cc/W3xhRPQZ/display06.jpg

    If this remains stable, is there a way to lock out display driver updates?

    I still pity people who can't do this stuff, where even I can't do it
    without help, but at least I didn't have to buy a new monitor to fix it.

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Thu Jul 4 14:42:31 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:45:32 -0500, Harry S Robins wrote:

    If this remains stable, is there a way to lock out display driver updates?

    Finally, I think I am slowly beginning to understand what's happening. https://i.postimg.cc/WzzvLYMR/display12.jpg

    I walked away from the PC for an hour, leaving it running and when I came
    back, it was at 720p instead of 1080i (without me doing anything to it).

    The Nvidia driver clearly had updated itself back to the newest version.
    I feel sorry for people who have to do this.

    Anyway, I rolled it back to the previous version & when it asked
    "Why are you rolling back?" I gave them a piece of my mind.

    I wonder who gets that input, if anyone...

    What is making it update from 3/17/2022 version 30.0.15.1215?
    How can I prevent it from updating to 5/6/2024 31.0.15.5241?

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Thu Jul 4 16:44:03 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 7/4/2024 3:42 PM, Harry S Robins wrote:

    I wonder who gets that input, if anyone...
    What is making it update from 3/17/2022 version 30.0.15.1215?
    How can I prevent it from updating to 5/6/2024 31.0.15.5241?

    If it were me I'd check Autoruns and maybe Task Manager. Also
    services. Make sure there isn't something waking up the NVidia
    updater. Also look for an updater executable somewhere. Something
    has to run in order to check for updates.

    I have a ridiculous Intel Arc control paanel or some such
    that sets itself to load. I disable that in Autoruns. Finally, you
    should have a firewall. Try Simplewall. Nothing should be
    able to go out that you haven't approved of, especially these
    days when so many things are trying to call home.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Thu Jul 4 17:49:49 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 7/4/2024 11:39 AM, Harry S Robins wrote:
    On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 11:05:46 -0400, Zaidy036 wrote:

    Since you are not progressing I would suggest shutting off PC and make sure all connections are "good" by manipulating the graphics card and cable connections.

    Thanks for that advice, where I'm happy to report, for the first time in something like three days, the daily morning bootup came in at 1080i.

    For the first time in days, it defaulted upon reboot to the desired "1920x1080 (Recommended)" resolution, which doesn't even show up as a
    choice when the daily morning bootup came in at "HDMI 720p" yesterday. https://i.postimg.cc/cCQ3Ljcz/display05.jpg

    So now I'm back to dual monitors and the correct resolution on the main monitor (which is a biggie so I need it for my tired old eyes to see).

    To your concern about hardware, I also haven't figured out if this is a hardware or software problem, but the fact it works after jiggling only the software, indicates to me that it's a software issue that suddenly came up.

    Also to your helpful point about intermittent hardware issues, long ago I pulled and yanked and wiggled everything and I even swapped an HDMI cable from a different setup and long ago I blew the can of air on the graphics card fan (as it is hot outside these days but GPU-Z & MSI Afterburner show nothing abnormal in the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti temperature readings.

    I think it's software but I do agree it seems to have hardware aspects.
    I am looking for a GPU tester that is better than MSI Afterburner/GPU-Z.

    You can use the "Real Time Option" on this program, to check
    that the EDID table is currently connected and accessible
    via the two serial pins (on all connectors). The EDID table lists
    the "capabilities" of the monitor, and the video card reads this
    occasionally.

    https://entechtaiwan.com/util/moninfo.shtm

    Linux also has utilities for EDID.

    Paul

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 4 17:55:28 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 16:44:03 -0400, Newyana2 wrote:

    I wonder who gets that input, if anyone...
    What is making it update from 3/17/2022 version 30.0.15.1215?
    How can I prevent it from updating to 5/6/2024 31.0.15.5241?

    If it were me I'd check Autoruns and maybe Task Manager. Also
    services. Make sure there isn't something waking up the NVidia
    updater. Also look for an updater executable somewhere. Something
    has to run in order to check for updates.

    I have a ridiculous Intel Arc control paanel or some such
    that sets itself to load. I disable that in Autoruns. Finally, you
    should have a firewall. Try Simplewall. Nothing should be
    able to go out that you haven't approved of, especially these
    days when so many things are trying to call home.

    Thanks for the autoruns/taskmanager suggestions as I need to figure out
    what is updating the Nvidia driver (and hence, causing the problem).

    Googling I see that Nvidia "says" there's an update option in the
    "Preferences" tab in the "Nvidia Control Panel", but I don't see even a preferences tab in the Nvidia control panel that comes up when I right
    click on the desktop.
    https://www.nvidia.com/en-in/drivers/nvidia-update/

    This says the automatic update is happening inside of something called
    "GeForce Experience", which I guess I have to see if I can find it. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/how-to-disable-automatic-driver-updates-from-nvidia-in-windows-11/280662/3

    "Unintended GPU updates can only happen if your IT department controls
    version updates and enforces them without your knowledge.
    Or if you have enabled Windows Update to always automatically install all security AND optional updates when available.

    Those are the only two places where you could have automatic GPU driver updates.NVIDIA drivers do not update by themselves."

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  • From sticks@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Thu Jul 4 19:34:31 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 7/4/2024 5:55 PM, Harry S Robins wrote:

    Those are the only two places where you could have automatic GPU driver updates.NVIDIA drivers do not update by themselves."

    If I were in your spot, I would try this:
    ----------------
    Step 1 : Find device hardware ID

    In Device Manager, right-click on the device, choose Properties, then in
    the Details tab set Property to Hardware Ids and copy the displayed id.

    Step 2 : Install your driver

    Disconnect the computer from the Internet, go again into Device Manager, uninstall the driver installed by Windows and install your own. Reboot,
    and ensure that the driver stays as installed.

    Step 3 : Block driver update for that device

    Run gpedit.msc
    Go to Local Computer Policy → Computer Configuration →
    Administrative Templates → System → Device Installation → Device Installation Restrictions
    Double-click on Prevent installation of devices that match any of
    these device IDs and set it to Enabled.
    Click the Show button to launch the dialog titled "Prevent
    installation of devices that match any of these Device IDs".
    Paste into Value the copied hardware-id for the device.
    Click OK until finished.

    Step 4 : Finishing

    Reconnect the computer to the Internet. Verify from time to time that
    the driver has not changed (this should not happen unless Microsoft
    manages to break this option).
    -----------------
    From this webpage

    <https://superuser.com/questions/964475/how-do-i-stop-windows-10-from-updating-my-graphics-driver?noredirect=1&lq=1>


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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Thu Jul 4 22:36:29 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 7/4/2024 6:55 PM, Harry S Robins wrote:


    This says the automatic update is happening inside of something called "GeForce Experience", which I guess I have to see if I can find it. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/how-to-disable-automatic-driver-updates-from-nvidia-in-windows-11/280662/3



    I seem to remember that GeForce Experience was some kind of
    bullshit that you didn't have to install.

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  • From wasbit@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Fri Jul 5 10:19:10 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 02/07/2024 15:28, Harry S Robins wrote:
    Every one of us has relatives who have problems with their computers, some
    of whom we can help (normally if we're close by where they live).

    snip <

    But this is why I feel sorry for people who don't know how to work them.

    Much like mechanics who say the same about people servicing their own cars.

    --
    Regards
    wasbit

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  • From s|b@21:1/5 to wasbit on Fri Jul 5 15:50:01 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 10:19:10 +0100, wasbit wrote:

    But this is why I feel sorry for people who don't know how to work them.

    Much like mechanics who say the same about people servicing their own cars.

    (-:

    --
    s|b

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to Paul on Fri Jul 5 18:57:08 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 17:49:49 -0400, Paul wrote:

    You can use the "Real Time Option" on this program, to check
    that the EDID table is currently connected and accessible
    via the two serial pins (on all connectors). The EDID table lists
    the "capabilities" of the monitor, and the video card reads this occasionally.

    https://entechtaiwan.com/util/moninfo.shtm

    Thanks for that monitor troubleshooting & identification suggestion.

    At first, I didn't understand a word of the above (EDID table?) but I did appreciate the link to the display debugging software, which says it
    queries the display to tell you unambiguously what the display is.

    https://entechtaiwan.com/util/moninfo.shtm https://entechtaiwan.com/files/mi_setup.exe
    Name: 20240701_mi_setup.exe
    Size: 728880 bytes (711 KiB)
    SHA256: FB9AC31EFEE625E279069B3C99663D1B7838DD94820618EB2A5CEBCC65A0149F
    Monitor Asset Manager queries the monitor directly rather than
    relying on potentially dubious information stored in the registry.
    All the information provided by the display to the system is displayed
    including DPM and GTF/CVT support, color chromaticity values,
    native and recommended resolutions with exact timing parameters,
    as well as device minimum requirements and maximum limits.

    The part that is interesting to me with regard to the 1080i (interlaced)
    rather than 1080p (progressive) is the "native & recommended resolutions" (although I don't know what it means to have "exact timing parameters".

    Here's output, with those native & recommended resolutions & parameters. https://i.postimg.cc/5y0S9F0T/display13.jpg

    First notice here's where Paul's mention of the EDID table comes from. https://media.extron.com/public/download/files/articles/understandingedid.pdf

    Notice the suggested MonInfo tool reads the monitor EDID to tell me that
    Native/Preferred timing is "1920x1080i at 60Hz (16:9)"
    Detailed timing is "720x480p at 60Hz (4:3)"
    Both of which seem to be what is reported independently of Windows at the
    top right of my monitor when I use the remote control to query what it is. https://i.postimg.cc/XqQ5bk1R/display02.jpg

    As for the EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) table, I googled. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/display/overriding-monitor-edids
    "All monitors, analog or digital, must support EDID, which contains
    information such as the monitor identifier, manufacturer data,
    hardware identifier, timing info, and so on. This data is stored
    in the monitor's EEPROM in a format that VESA specifies."

    In keeping with the topic which was I'm glad I know enough about computers
    to be able to solve some problems, you can actually override the EDID with
    an INF file, which, I'll wager not one of us on this newsgroup has done.

    Having read that, I suspect the reason you brought it up was that the
    MonInfo program is faithfully reported what is in the EDID EEProm. Right?

    If so, the suggested MonInfo confirmed the monitor is 1080p and/or 720p,
    but I'm not quite sure what the difference is between Native/Preferred
    timing and Detailed timing. Looking it up, the first hit is the exact
    problem I'm having, only on a much older Windows and a different card. https://superuser.com/questions/1011441/monitor-not-displaying-native-resolution

    This next hit suggests the preferred mode is generally the best resolution
    but the monitor has "inferred" modes just to give the user some choices. https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/1139683-display-inferred-and-preferred-modes-resolution-a

    Anyway, the problem has been resolved, thanks to all of your help, where at first I was cocky that I had simply reloaded the driver but it took a few
    days before I realized that there was more work to be done to solve it.

    Results below.
    https://i.postimg.cc/nL3fqs5H/display01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/XqQ5bk1R/display02.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/W1n1f1Ky/display03.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/v8qDGTZw/display04.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/cCQ3Ljcz/display05.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/W3xhRPQZ/display06.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/3RGv9BRY/display07.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/WzZr5P29/display08.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/C1j6X9LK/display09.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/SNnG3wKf/display10.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/nVWFYwwD/display11.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/WzzvLYMR/display12.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/5y0S9F0T/display13.jpg

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Sat Jul 6 04:47:12 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 7/5/2024 7:57 PM, Harry S Robins wrote:
    On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 17:49:49 -0400, Paul wrote:

    You can use the "Real Time Option" on this program, to check
    that the EDID table is currently connected and accessible
    via the two serial pins (on all connectors). The EDID table lists
    the "capabilities" of the monitor, and the video card reads this
    occasionally.

       https://entechtaiwan.com/util/moninfo.shtm

    Thanks for that monitor troubleshooting & identification suggestion.

    At first, I didn't understand a word of the above (EDID table?) but I did appreciate the link to the display debugging software, which says it
    queries the display to tell you unambiguously what the display is.

    https://entechtaiwan.com/util/moninfo.shtm https://entechtaiwan.com/files/mi_setup.exe
    Name: 20240701_mi_setup.exe
    Size: 728880 bytes (711 KiB)
    SHA256: FB9AC31EFEE625E279069B3C99663D1B7838DD94820618EB2A5CEBCC65A0149F  Monitor Asset Manager queries the monitor directly rather than  relying on potentially dubious information stored in the registry.  All the information provided by the display to the system is displayed  including DPM and GTF/CVT support, color
    chromaticity values,  native and recommended resolutions with exact timing parameters,  as well as device minimum requirements and maximum limits.
    The part that is interesting to me with regard to the 1080i (interlaced) rather than 1080p (progressive) is the "native & recommended resolutions" (although I don't know what it means to have "exact timing parameters".

    Here's output, with those native & recommended resolutions & parameters. https://i.postimg.cc/5y0S9F0T/display13.jpg

    First notice here's where Paul's mention of the EDID table comes from. https://media.extron.com/public/download/files/articles/understandingedid.pdf

    Notice the suggested MonInfo tool reads the monitor EDID to tell me that Native/Preferred timing is "1920x1080i at 60Hz (16:9)"
    Detailed timing is "720x480p at 60Hz (4:3)"
    Both of which seem to be what is reported independently of Windows at the
    top right of my monitor when I use the remote control to query what it is. https://i.postimg.cc/XqQ5bk1R/display02.jpg

    As for the EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) table, I googled. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/display/overriding-monitor-edids
    "All monitors, analog or digital, must support EDID, which contains information such as the monitor identifier, manufacturer data,
    hardware identifier, timing info, and so on. This data is stored
    in the monitor's EEPROM in a format that VESA specifies."

    In keeping with the topic which was I'm glad I know enough about computers
    to be able to solve some problems, you can actually override the EDID with
    an INF file, which, I'll wager not one of us on this newsgroup has done.

    Having read that, I suspect the reason you brought it up was that the
    MonInfo program is faithfully reported what is in the EDID EEProm. Right?

    If so, the suggested MonInfo confirmed the monitor is 1080p and/or 720p, but I'm not quite sure what the difference is between Native/Preferred
    timing and Detailed timing. Looking it up, the first hit is the exact
    problem I'm having, only on a much older Windows and a different card. https://superuser.com/questions/1011441/monitor-not-displaying-native-resolution

    This next hit suggests the preferred mode is generally the best resolution but the monitor has "inferred" modes just to give the user some choices. https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/1139683-display-inferred-and-preferred-modes-resolution-a

    Anyway, the problem has been resolved, thanks to all of your help, where at first I was cocky that I had simply reloaded the driver but it took a few days before I realized that there was more work to be done to solve it.

    Results below.
    https://i.postimg.cc/nL3fqs5H/display01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/XqQ5bk1R/display02.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/W1n1f1Ky/display03.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/v8qDGTZw/display04.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/cCQ3Ljcz/display05.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/W3xhRPQZ/display06.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/3RGv9BRY/display07.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/WzZr5P29/display08.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/C1j6X9LK/display09.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/SNnG3wKf/display10.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/nVWFYwwD/display11.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/WzzvLYMR/display12.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/5y0S9F0T/display13.jpg

    The purpose of that Monitor Info utility in this case,
    is just to verify the two serial pins are making good
    contact and the table in the monitor is "well-formed",
    which it seems to be. The connector, at the instant you
    took that sample, must have been touching. An all 0's or
    all 1's table, would likely have a bad checksum.

    Paul

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 20 10:24:09 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    It happened again today after my morning reboot on Tuesday August 20, 2024. https://i.postimg.cc/nhdg6Cp1/display14.jpg

    When I booted this morning, the display was set to 720p instead of 1080i.

    Windows 10, for whatever reason, updated the last known good working
    version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti display driver from the working 3/17/2022 (30.0.15.1215) version to the non-working 6/25/2024
    (32.0.15.5612) version, which necessitated a rollback operation to fix.

    Not only do I still feel sorry for people who don't know how to work with computers, but I feel sorry for those who can't post to this ng for help!

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  • From Ed Cryer@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Tue Aug 20 16:59:40 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    Harry S Robins wrote:
    It happened again today after my morning reboot on Tuesday August 20, 2024. https://i.postimg.cc/nhdg6Cp1/display14.jpg

    When I booted this morning, the display was set to 720p instead of 1080i.

    Windows 10, for whatever reason, updated the last known good working
    version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti display driver from the working 3/17/2022 (30.0.15.1215) version to the non-working 6/25/2024
    (32.0.15.5612) version, which necessitated a rollback operation to fix.

    Not only do I still feel sorry for people who don't know how to work with computers, but I feel sorry for those who can't post to this ng for help!

    I haven't followed the whole of this thread, so pardon me if I'm leading
    us backwards.
    What has happened smells strongly of a Win10 setting; allow/ disallow
    driver updates. I have mine switched off, like most regulars here.

    Ed

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  • From Harry S Robins@21:1/5 to Ed Cryer on Tue Aug 20 16:57:00 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:59:40 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote:

    It happened again today after my morning reboot on Tuesday August 20, 2024. >> https://i.postimg.cc/nhdg6Cp1/display14.jpg

    When I booted this morning, the display was set to 720p instead of 1080i.

    Windows 10, for whatever reason, updated the last known good working
    version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti display driver from the working
    3/17/2022 (30.0.15.1215) version to the non-working 6/25/2024
    (32.0.15.5612) version, which necessitated a rollback operation to fix.

    Not only do I still feel sorry for people who don't know how to work with
    computers, but I feel sorry for those who can't post to this ng for help!

    I haven't followed the whole of this thread, so pardon me if I'm leading
    us backwards.
    What has happened smells strongly of a Win10 setting; allow/ disallow
    driver updates. I have mine switched off, like most regulars here.

    I remember that Paul had noted it and at the time I had set it but it apparently is a red herring because that setting simply does not work.

    Let me google it on the automatic archives for this particular newsgroup
    to find where Paul had mentioned it - ok - I just found it searching this. https://tinyurl.com/nova-alt-comp-os-windows-10 https://tinyurl.com/nova-alt-comp-os-windows-11 https://tinyurl.com/nova-alt-comp-hardware-pc-home

    It was mentioned three times in this thread according to that search. https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=5561&group=alt.comp.os.windows-11#5561
    https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=5597&group=alt.comp.os.windows-11#5597
    https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=5606&group=alt.comp.os.windows-11#5606

    However, none of those 3 mentions says how to disallow driver updates.
    One of those is from you. The other from me. The third from Paul.
    But none say how to do it. Only Paul mentioned it in this thread.

    Looking up how to disallow Windows driver updates, the topic has never been discussed on this newsgroup before, so I'm on my own breaking new ground. https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php (disallow driver updates)

    Searching Google for "disable driver updates" first and foremost https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+10+disable+driver+updates

    What comes up as a solution is this https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-stop-automatic-driver-updates/
    Press Win + S to open the search menu.
    Type control panel and press Enter.
    Navigate to System > Advanced System Settings.
    In the System Properties window, switch to the Hardware tab and click the Device Installation Settings button.
    Select No and click Save Changes.

    The problem is that has been set since Paul suggested it.
    So the update isn't coming from there.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Tue Aug 20 22:28:59 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Tue, 8/20/2024 5:57 PM, Harry S Robins wrote:
    On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:59:40 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote:

    It happened again today after my morning reboot on Tuesday August 20, 2024. >>> https://i.postimg.cc/nhdg6Cp1/display14.jpg

    When I booted this morning, the display was set to 720p instead of 1080i. >>>
    Windows 10, for whatever reason, updated the last known good working
    version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti display driver from the working >>> 3/17/2022 (30.0.15.1215) version to the non-working 6/25/2024
    (32.0.15.5612) version, which necessitated a rollback operation to fix.

    Not only do I still feel sorry for people who don't know how to work with >>> computers, but I feel sorry for those who can't post to this ng for help! >>
    I haven't followed the whole of this thread, so pardon me if I'm leading us backwards.  What has happened smells strongly of a Win10 setting; allow/ disallow driver updates. I have mine switched off, like most regulars here.

    I remember that Paul had noted it and at the time I had set it but it apparently is a red herring because that setting simply does not work.

    Let me google it on the automatic archives for this particular newsgroup
    to find where Paul had mentioned it - ok - I just found it searching this. https://tinyurl.com/nova-alt-comp-os-windows-10 https://tinyurl.com/nova-alt-comp-os-windows-11 https://tinyurl.com/nova-alt-comp-hardware-pc-home

    It was mentioned three times in this thread according to that search. https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=5561&group=alt.comp.os.windows-11#5561
    https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=5597&group=alt.comp.os.windows-11#5597
    https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=5606&group=alt.comp.os.windows-11#5606

    However, none of those 3 mentions says how to disallow driver updates.
    One of those is from you. The other from me. The third from Paul.
    But none say how to do it. Only Paul mentioned it in this thread.

    Looking up how to disallow Windows driver updates, the topic has never been discussed on this newsgroup before, so I'm on my own breaking new ground. https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php (disallow driver updates)

    Searching Google for "disable driver updates" first and foremost https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+10+disable+driver+updates

    What comes up as a solution is this https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-stop-automatic-driver-updates/
    Press Win + S to open the search menu.
    Type control panel and press Enter.
    Navigate to System > Advanced System Settings.
    In the System Properties window, switch to the Hardware tab and click the Device Installation Settings button.
    Select No and click Save Changes.

    The problem is that has been set since Paul suggested it.
    So the update isn't coming from there.

    If your NVidia driver, the one you are having good luck with, was
    downloaded direct from NVidia, the NVidia "package" may have
    installed an updater. NVidia can install some stuff in Scheduled Tasks.
    That's one of their methods of doing stuff in the background.
    I don't know if they have a Google-style updater loaded in the system or not.

    You would have to think about what they are doing, or
    how they are doing it, like it was a malware. Maybe
    they have loaded a Startup Item.

    The benefit of running an updater as a service, is it
    has sufficient elevation to not need the UAC prompt.
    That's how they can do it, without you knowing.

    The Microsoft version of the NVidia driver, is more of
    a .inf style installation, and the file set can be
    relatively small. Once the NVidia driver is installed,
    Microsoft asks if you want to install an NVidia Control
    Panel from the Microsoft Store. That is how you'd set
    brightness and contrast perhaps, on top of the plain-jane
    driver used.

    The full NVidia package has GeForce Experience.

    Paul

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  • From Larc@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Wed Aug 21 09:31:30 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:24:09 -0500, Harry S Robins <stanleyrobins@nothere.uk> wrote:

    | It happened again today after my morning reboot on Tuesday August 20, 2024.
    | https://i.postimg.cc/nhdg6Cp1/display14.jpg
    |
    | When I booted this morning, the display was set to 720p instead of 1080i.
    |
    | Windows 10, for whatever reason, updated the last known good working
    | version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti display driver from the working
    | 3/17/2022 (30.0.15.1215) version to the non-working 6/25/2024
    | (32.0.15.5612) version, which necessitated a rollback operation to fix.
    |
    | Not only do I still feel sorry for people who don't know how to work with
    | computers, but I feel sorry for those who can't post to this ng for help!

    I have the same GPU in one of my computers and had problems with a recent driver that
    wouldn't install on that computer for some reason. Don't recall if it was 32.0.15.5612. The driver istalled and ran fine on 3 other PCs with Nvidia GPUs. I
    am running driver 32.0.15.6081 dated 7/30/2024 at 1920x1080 on the 750 Ti machine now
    with no problems. Since Nvidia sometimes updates its drivers to comply with Windows
    changes, I try to keep up to date with them.

    Larc

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Larc on Wed Aug 21 12:56:05 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Wed, 8/21/2024 9:31 AM, Larc wrote:
    On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:24:09 -0500, Harry S Robins <stanleyrobins@nothere.uk> wrote:

    | It happened again today after my morning reboot on Tuesday August 20, 2024. | https://i.postimg.cc/nhdg6Cp1/display14.jpg
    |
    | When I booted this morning, the display was set to 720p instead of 1080i.
    |
    | Windows 10, for whatever reason, updated the last known good working
    | version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti display driver from the working
    | 3/17/2022 (30.0.15.1215) version to the non-working 6/25/2024
    | (32.0.15.5612) version, which necessitated a rollback operation to fix.
    |
    | Not only do I still feel sorry for people who don't know how to work with
    | computers, but I feel sorry for those who can't post to this ng for help!

    I have the same GPU in one of my computers and had problems with a recent driver that
    wouldn't install on that computer for some reason. Don't recall if it was 32.0.15.5612. The driver istalled and ran fine on 3 other PCs with Nvidia GPUs. I
    am running driver 32.0.15.6081 dated 7/30/2024 at 1920x1080 on the 750 Ti machine now
    with no problems. Since Nvidia sometimes updates its drivers to comply with Windows
    changes, I try to keep up to date with them.

    Larc


    For about six years from launch, the driver may receive functional
    changes (the kind a new game might want or need).

    At some point, the driver changes are not functional changes,
    but API version changes.

    Eventually, there are no new drivers with your card model included,
    so you are stuck with the "last driver for your card".

    If you use "dxdiag", you can check the API version of the driver.

    dxdiag
    Driver tab
    "Driver Model: WDDM 3.1"

    XDDM drivers no longer work on Win10 (and I presume Win11 as well).

    WDDM 1.1 might work on Win10 at least. The card in my Optiplex 780 is like that.

    Current NVidia drivers (card under support) might be WDDM 3.1 or so.

    Paul

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  • From Larc@21:1/5 to Paul on Thu Aug 22 10:05:36 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:56:05 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

    | For about six years from launch, the driver may receive functional
    | changes (the kind a new game might want or need).
    |
    | At some point, the driver changes are not functional changes,
    | but API version changes.
    |
    | Eventually, there are no new drivers with your card model included,
    | so you are stuck with the "last driver for your card".
    |
    | If you use "dxdiag", you can check the API version of the driver.
    |
    | dxdiag
    | Driver tab
    | "Driver Model: WDDM 3.1"
    |
    | XDDM drivers no longer work on Win10 (and I presume Win11 as well).
    |
    | WDDM 1.1 might work on Win10 at least. The card in my Optiplex 780 is like that.
    |
    | Current NVidia drivers (card under support) might be WDDM 3.1 or so.
    |
    | Paul

    The GTX 750 Ti the OP referred to is WDDM 3.2. Nvidia always provides a list of the
    series each driver supports. My latest Nvidia card is RTX 30 series at WDDM 2.7.
    Both that and the 750 Ti use the same Game Ready driver, but the 750 Ti can't run the
    Studio version which I prefer to use.

    Larc

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Harry S Robins on Thu Aug 22 12:05:05 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/20/2024 11:24 AM, Harry S Robins wrote:


    Not only do I still feel sorry for people who don't know how to work with computers, but I feel sorry for those who can't post to this ng for help!

    That's the unique arrogance of geeks. Do you also feel sorry
    for people who don't know how to cook? Dance? Do their taxes?
    Change their oil? Farm? Chop down a tree? Write a novel?
    Diagnose an illness? Fill a tooth?

    That thinking is why Linux has had such a hard time getting
    established. Geeks equate tech aptitude with intelligence. It's
    also why geeks have a hard time in social situations.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 23 15:14:45 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Thu, 8/22/2024 12:05 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 8/20/2024 11:24 AM, Harry S Robins wrote:


    Not only do I still feel sorry for people who don't know how to work with
    computers, but I feel sorry for those who can't post to this ng for help!

      That's the unique arrogance of geeks. Do you also feel sorry
    for people who don't know how to cook? Dance? Do their taxes?
    Change their oil? Farm? Chop down a tree? Write a novel?
    Diagnose an illness? Fill a tooth?

       That thinking is why Linux has had such a hard time getting
    established. Geeks equate tech aptitude with intelligence. It's
    also why geeks have a hard time in social situations.


    Linux is established. It just happens to not have as many users :-)

    Consuming Linux, it's a different food group. While they tried
    to make the GUI, so it looks like your familiar hamburger and fries,
    it isn't really like that. It's more like lobster. Lobster needs
    tools (unless "mom cuts up your food for you"). If you had an Admin
    on the premises, you could be happily stuffing food in your face :-)

    Even if you don't do any of it, examine the Gentoo handbook. It's
    a (long) recipe you could follow, to put Linux on a computer. But
    in the process, the various "parts" of the OS are exposed. You
    will build a kernel using "genkernel" for config (that means you
    aren't learning anything, but doing less work). You learn how
    to chroot (handy for getting into Linux when it won't boot or
    is broken somehow). That's how you learn to get the meat out of
    the claws. You don't have to carry out the recipe, just observe
    the various parts you might one day have to do yourself.

    And when you ask a Linux user a question, the spectrum of Linux
    users has changed. Some of the people you're asking, don't
    know the answer. They think they're eating hamburger and fries,
    and they may not have a very firm handle on the moving parts.

    Information on subsystems, you can get some of it from Arch Linux
    information pages. Even when you're using Ubuntu, Arch has put the
    effort into writing backgrounders. But some nuggets remain buried.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/The_Linux_Graphics_Stack_and_glamor.svg

    ( https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29 )

    That diagram is thick with TLAs and component names. It's like
    a vitamin pill designed for seniors :-) Attempts to cover a lot of bases.

    You don't have to use Linux today, but you should at least bookmark
    a few things (it's like keeping a life preserver in your rowboat).
    The purple blob "Xwayland" in the diagram, is similar to the existing X11 server,
    and gives you some idea how Wayland attempts to bridge to the X11 protocol
    and ecosystem. When Xwayland is removed, the Xeyes will no longer be available :-)
    A number of topics in Linux are like that - you are forced to learn
    the history, to even begin to make progress. For example, you have
    to learn every sound subsystem Linux had, because some of them
    never left the building (ALSA is alive and well).

    Windows actually needs diagrams like that too, but we're not going to get them.

    Paul

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  • From T@21:1/5 to Paul on Fri Aug 23 13:08:41 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/23/24 12:14, Paul wrote:
    Linux is established. It just happens to not have as many users

    It does not matter how good Linux gets and it is pretty
    good now-a-days, much better than Windows, until the
    apps that Windows has get ported over.

    My experience with my customer is that they have no idea
    what their operating system even is. They only care if the
    stuff they want will run on it: quickbooks, adobe, M$O, etc..
    There are alternatives, but ...

    It is what it is.

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 23 15:53:10 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    T wrote:
    On 8/23/24 12:14, Paul wrote:
    Linux is established. It just happens to not have as many users

    It does not matter how good Linux gets and it is pretty
    good now-a-days, much better than Windows, until the
    apps that Windows has get ported over.


    Does Linux no longer support WINE?

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  • From T@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Fri Aug 23 14:15:16 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/23/24 13:53, Hank Rogers wrote:
    T wrote:
    On 8/23/24 12:14, Paul wrote:
    Linux is established. It just happens to not have as many users

    It does not matter how good Linux gets and it is pretty
    good now-a-days, much better than Windows, until the
    apps that Windows has get ported over.


    Does Linux no longer support WINE?

    Oh Yes. Linux does support Wine and
    I frequently use it.

    The problem with Wine is that it is at best
    Alpha code stage. It is hit or miss to get a
    Windows program to run. And it is like pulling
    teeth to get them to fix anything. They eventually
    do though, but it takes years, not weeks.

    On the bright side, qemu-kvm virtual machine runs
    great in Linux and you can run Windows that way.
    But you are still stuck with Window.

    Lately, the only Windows program I have had to run
    in a VM was Turbo Tax, but that was two years ago.

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  • From T@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Fri Aug 23 14:16:08 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/23/24 13:53, Hank Rogers wrote:
    T wrote:
    On 8/23/24 12:14, Paul wrote:
    Linux is established. It just happens to not have as many users

    It does not matter how good Linux gets and it is pretty
    good now-a-days, much better than Windows, until the
    apps that Windows has get ported over.


    Does Linux no longer support WINE?





    Answered the W10 group

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  • From Big Al@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 23 17:32:04 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/23/24 05:27 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 8/23/2024 4:53 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:


    Does Linux no longer support WINE?

      WINE is still there. Not much good. A pain to set up.
    Like most of Linux, you try to use it and end up on a 2
    day search for fixes.

    I disagree. Yes, Wine is not well tuned. It has it's rough edges, but it works. It fills a
    niche for those who left Windows for Linux. I wouldn't run a WIndow CAD program with it, and there
    are a lot of native Linux apps that can mimic what Windows does.
    --
    Linux Mint 21.3, Cinnamon 6.0.4, Kernel 5.15.0-119-generic
    Al

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Fri Aug 23 17:27:16 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/23/2024 4:53 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:


    Does Linux no longer support WINE?

    WINE is still there. Not much good. A pain to set up.
    Like most of Linux, you try to use it and end up on a 2
    day search for fixes.

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  • From T@21:1/5 to Big Al on Fri Aug 23 15:10:44 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/23/24 14:32, Big Al wrote:
    On 8/23/24 05:27 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 8/23/2024 4:53 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:


    Does Linux no longer support WINE?

       WINE is still there. Not much good. A pain to set up.
    Like most of Linux, you try to use it and end up on a 2
    day search for fixes.

    I disagree.  Yes, Wine is not well tuned.   It has it's rough edges, but it works.   It fills a niche for those who left Windows for Linux.   I wouldn't run a WIndow CAD program with it, and there are a lot of native Linux apps that can mimic what Windows does.


    I use it for Smart Suite (Approach, WordPro). They just
    fixed a bug that woudl not allow me to use my print properties
    dialog in Approach. I use it with Envelope Printer too.

    You can't use it with M$O 2021 and above or any Adobe products.

    Here is a list of things that work with Wine, etc.
    https://appdb.winehq.org/

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Big Al on Fri Aug 23 17:51:14 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Fri, 8/23/2024 5:32 PM, Big Al wrote:
    On 8/23/24 05:27 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 8/23/2024 4:53 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:


    Does Linux no longer support WINE?

       WINE is still there. Not much good. A pain to set up.
    Like most of Linux, you try to use it and end up on a 2
    day search for fixes.

    I disagree.  Yes, Wine is not well tuned.   It has it's rough edges, but it works.   It fills a niche for those who left Windows for Linux.   I wouldn't run a WIndow CAD program with it, and there are a lot of native Linux apps that can mimic
    what Windows does.

    It is relatively painful.

    It took me a bit, to realize I need multiarch enabled for
    both 32-bit and 64-bit WINE to work. Enable multiarch,
    refresh the Package Manager config info.

    And the correct recipe for installing dependencies (winetricks)
    is also a large gaping wound.

    For people interested in WINE enablement, do a backup first
    before you begin. The Grue is going to eat you several
    times, before you defeat it.

    "You are likely to be eaten by a grue"

    If you do all the steps properly, then the current state
    of the Linux slash is now your Daily Driver again.

    WINE will also pester you with queries about "whether you're
    running the right version". You use wine64, maybe it suggests
    wine32 and so on. Barrels of fun.

    Paul

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  • From T@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 23 15:14:34 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/23/24 14:27, Newyana2 wrote:
    A pain to set up.
    Like most of Linux, you try to use it and end up on a 2
    day search for fixes.

    That has changed. It is now pretty easy. I do
    remember your pain though.

    But if you run one of the badly supported distros,
    then you have to live with it.

    The best supported distro is Fedora. Ubooboo has
    badly slipped behind.

    Here is a list of all the supported desktops in Fedora
    and their Live USB downloads. My two favorites are
    MATE and Xfce. KDE is good too, but a bit bloated.
    Gnome (the default) is too weird to be usable.
    https://fedoraproject.org/spins/

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  • From T@21:1/5 to Chan on Fri Aug 23 15:53:17 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 8/23/24 15:45, Chan wrote:
    On 23/08/2024 22:15, T wrote:


    The problem with Wine is that it is at best
    Alpha code stage.  It is hit or miss to get a
    Windows program to run.

    You can use bottles.  <https://usebottles.com/>


    Bottle is just Wine wrapped around a useless interface.

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 23 17:48:16 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    T wrote:
    On 8/23/24 14:27, Newyana2 wrote:
    A pain to set up.
    Like most of Linux, you try to use it and end up on a 2
    day search for fixes.

    That has changed.  It is now pretty easy.  I do
    remember your pain though.

    But if you run one of the badly supported distros,
    then you have to live with it.

    The best supported distro is Fedora.  Ubooboo has
    badly slipped behind.

    Here is a list of all the supported desktops in Fedora
    and their Live USB downloads.  My two favorites are
    MATE and Xfce.  KDE is good too, but a bit bloated.
    Gnome (the default) is too weird to be usable.
        https://fedoraproject.org/spins/

    Sounds like only pure luck would allow you to stumble onto exactly the
    right "distro" out of hundreds, and end up with something that really works.

    Hell, that's no better than dealing with windows. Sounds the same to me.

    At least it's free, so all you're wasting is your time.

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  • From T@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Fri Aug 23 15:56:46 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/23/24 15:48, Hank Rogers wrote:

    Here is a list of all the supported desktops in Fedora
    and their Live USB downloads.  My two favorites are
    MATE and Xfce.  KDE is good too, but a bit bloated.
    Gnome (the default) is too weird to be usable.
    https://fedoraproject.org/spins/

    Sounds like only pure luck would allow you to stumble onto exactly the
    right "distro" out of hundreds, and end up with something that really
    works.

    Hell, that's no better than dealing with windows. Sounds the same to me.

    At least it's free, so all you're wasting is your time.

    If you can't get your stuff to work on Linux, then
    stay with Windows.

    As far as distros go, just use Fedora. They
    are arguably the best. Do not waste your time
    with all the other distros. They are lacking.

    If you are thinking of trying Fedroa, I highly recommend
    going to
    https://fedoraproject.org/spins/
    and testing on a USB stick KDE, MATE, and Xfce.

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  • From Chan@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 23 22:45:20 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 23/08/2024 22:15, T wrote:


    The problem with Wine is that it is at best
    Alpha code stage.  It is hit or miss to get a
    Windows program to run.

    You can use bottles.  <https://usebottles.com/>

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 23 18:29:36 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    T wrote:
    On 8/23/24 15:48, Hank Rogers wrote:

    Here is a list of all the supported desktops in Fedora
    and their Live USB downloads.  My two favorites are
    MATE and Xfce.  KDE is good too, but a bit bloated.
    Gnome (the default) is too weird to be usable.
    https://fedoraproject.org/spins/

    Sounds like only pure luck would allow you to stumble onto exactly the
    right "distro" out of hundreds, and end up with something that really works. >>
    Hell, that's no better than dealing with windows. Sounds the same to me.

    At least it's free, so all you're wasting is your time.

    If you can't get your stuff to work on Linux, then
    stay with Windows.

    As far as distros go, just use Fedora.  They
    are arguably the best.  Do not waste your time
    with all the other distros.  They are lacking.

    If you are thinking of trying Fedroa, I highly recommend
    going to
       https://fedoraproject.org/spins/
    and testing on a USB stick KDE, MATE, and Xfce.

    Hell, it almost sounds like a religious squabble.

    I'll be sure to stay away from Fedroa. Thanks.

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Fri Aug 23 20:51:39 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 2024-08-23 4:53 p.m., Hank Rogers wrote:
    T wrote:
    On 8/23/24 12:14, Paul wrote:
    Linux is established. It just happens to not have as many users

    It does not matter how good Linux gets and it is pretty
    good now-a-days, much better than Windows, until the
    apps that Windows has get ported over.


    Does Linux no longer support WINE?

    Wine is around, but it won't run the latest versions of the applications
    people want. It does a good job with games, especially when using Proton
    in Steam, but Microsoft Office and Photoshop won't run because they
    require some DLLs you don't have access to in Linux.

    There are videos on YouTube showing how much of a mess it is to get
    Windows apps running in Linux.

    --
    CrudeSausage
    Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king

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  • From T@21:1/5 to Hank Rogers on Fri Aug 23 17:49:55 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/23/24 16:29, Hank Rogers wrote:
    T wrote:
    On 8/23/24 15:48, Hank Rogers wrote:

    Here is a list of all the supported desktops in Fedora
    and their Live USB downloads.  My two favorites are
    MATE and Xfce.  KDE is good too, but a bit bloated.
    Gnome (the default) is too weird to be usable.
    https://fedoraproject.org/spins/

    Sounds like only pure luck would allow you to stumble onto exactly
    the right "distro" out of hundreds, and end up with something that
    really works.

    Hell, that's no better than dealing with windows. Sounds the same to me. >>>
    At least it's free, so all you're wasting is your time.

    If you can't get your stuff to work on Linux, then
    stay with Windows.

    As far as distros go, just use Fedora.  They
    are arguably the best.  Do not waste your time
    with all the other distros.  They are lacking.

    If you are thinking of trying Fedroa, I highly recommend
    going to
        https://fedoraproject.org/spins/
    and testing on a USB stick KDE, MATE, and Xfce.

    Hell, it almost sounds like a religious squabble.

    I'll be sure to stay away from Fedroa. Thanks.




    If Windows is meeting your needs, stay with it.
    Move to Fedora is not.

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Big Al on Fri Aug 23 21:27:25 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/23/2024 5:32 PM, Big Al wrote:
    On 8/23/24 05:27 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 8/23/2024 4:53 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:


    Does Linux no longer support WINE?

       WINE is still there. Not much good. A pain to set up.
    Like most of Linux, you try to use it and end up on a 2
    day search for fixes.

    I disagree.  Yes, Wine is not well tuned.   It has it's rough edges, but
    it works.   It fills a niche for those who left Windows for Linux.   I wouldn't run a WIndow CAD program with it, and there are a lot of native Linux apps that can mimic what Windows does.

    I actually found it more useful in the early days when one
    could install Windows libraries and fonts. Then they tried to make
    it all Linux, and they split 32-bit vs 64-bit. Last time I tried it
    the whole thing was very complicated and less accessible.

    It's a strange kind of Linux pathology. In the early days it was
    primitive, but it worked if you figured it out. It was like having to
    build a campfire to make coffee. A lot of work. A lot of arcane
    commandline incantations and editing /etc files. But it at least
    made sense.

    Then they jumped from there to locked down "convenience".
    Now there's a complicated coffee maker that doesn't work half
    the time, but it's too complicated and closed to fix it. And there's
    no longer an option to build a campfire.

    So now we have a Mac on acid. It doesn't work right, but it's
    mostly locked down. The worst of both worlds. And when one
    asks the experts for help they get mad: "Stop trying to do things
    and stop trying to understand. And for God's sake never use root.
    Just use Linux and love it. If you screw around then you might break
    something and give Linux a bad reputation."

    I think the primary problem with WINE is that it was never meant
    to support Windows software for Windows refugees. It was meant to
    run Grand Theft Auto for pimple-faced Linux geeks. The didn't copy
    the API to a Linux API so that all Windoows software could work
    equally well. They worked at intercepting API calls, one at a time,
    and rerouting them to Linux libraries. And mostly they only care about
    getting games to work.

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  • From T@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 23 21:07:33 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/23/24 18:27, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 8/23/2024 5:32 PM, Big Al wrote:
    On 8/23/24 05:27 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 8/23/2024 4:53 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:


    Does Linux no longer support WINE?

       WINE is still there. Not much good. A pain to set up.
    Like most of Linux, you try to use it and end up on a 2
    day search for fixes.

    I disagree.  Yes, Wine is not well tuned.   It has it's rough edges,
    but it works.   It fills a niche for those who left Windows for
    Linux.   I wouldn't run a WIndow CAD program with it, and there are a
    lot of native Linux apps that can mimic what Windows does.

      I actually found it more useful in the early days when one
    could install Windows libraries and fonts. Then they tried to make
    it all Linux, and they split 32-bit vs 64-bit. Last time I tried it
    the whole thing was very complicated and less accessible.

      It's a strange kind of Linux pathology. In the early days it was primitive, but it worked if you figured it out. It was like having to
    build a campfire to make coffee. A lot of work. A lot of arcane
    commandline incantations and editing /etc files. But it at least
    made sense.

       Then they jumped from there to locked down "convenience".
    Now there's a complicated coffee maker that doesn't work half
    the time, but it's too complicated and closed to fix it. And there's
    no longer an option to build a campfire.

       So now we have a Mac on acid. It doesn't work right, but it's
    mostly locked down. The worst of both worlds. And when one
    asks the experts for help they get mad: "Stop trying to do things
    and stop trying to understand. And for God's sake never use root.
    Just use Linux and love it. If you screw around then you might break something and give Linux a bad reputation."

      I think the primary problem with WINE is that it was never meant
    to support Windows software for Windows refugees. It was meant to
    run Grand Theft Auto for pimple-faced Linux geeks. The didn't copy
    the API to a Linux API so that all Windoows software could work
    equally well. They worked at intercepting API calls, one at a time,
    and rerouting them to Linux libraries. And mostly they only care about getting games to work.

    Good analysis.

    Wine and LibreOffice show the downside of Open Source.
    They give away the software for free and then charge
    for the maintenance. If you can not afford to put
    them on your payroll, you are stuck with their
    charity. Creates a hostage situation. And they
    really do deserve to get paid for what they do.

    I also find it very interesting that the wildly complicated
    gaming environment is so well supported in Wine. There
    are YouTube videos out there showing Fedora's DNF command
    installing hundreds of dependencies for the installation
    of a single Windows game.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 24 04:06:36 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Fri, 8/23/2024 8:49 PM, T wrote:
    On 8/23/24 16:29, Hank Rogers wrote:
    T wrote:
    On 8/23/24 15:48, Hank Rogers wrote:

    Here is a list of all the supported desktops in Fedora
    and their Live USB downloads.  My two favorites are
    MATE and Xfce.  KDE is good too, but a bit bloated.
    Gnome (the default) is too weird to be usable.
    https://fedoraproject.org/spins/

    Sounds like only pure luck would allow you to stumble onto exactly the right "distro" out of hundreds, and end up with something that really works.

    Hell, that's no better than dealing with windows. Sounds the same to me. >>>>
    At least it's free, so all you're wasting is your time.

    If you can't get your stuff to work on Linux, then
    stay with Windows.

    As far as distros go, just use Fedora.  They
    are arguably the best.  Do not waste your time
    with all the other distros.  They are lacking.

    If you are thinking of trying Fedroa, I highly recommend
    going to
        https://fedoraproject.org/spins/
    and testing on a USB stick KDE, MATE, and Xfce.

    Hell, it almost sounds like a religious squabble.

    I'll be sure to stay away from Fedroa. Thanks.




    If Windows is meeting your needs, stay with it.
    Move to Fedora is not.

    Linux is governed by the ten classifications of packages.

    Distros have religion. They don't ship things by default,
    that do not have clear title. Notice how in the past,
    NVidia binary blobs, you were installing those with a
    .run file you downloaded from Nvidia. They weren't in the tree.

    In FFMPEG, notice the Linux version of FFMPEG does not
    have NVDEC and NVENC acceleration. This is a build time
    option (as most things are in FFMPEG). When I wanted
    to have NVDEC and NVENC in Linux FFMPEG (Ubuntu), I
    downloaded the source and compiled it, I added the library,
    all the materials needed for the job were in the tree.
    The version alignment was all correct. Nobody tried to throw
    me off the trail. The rails were greased... but, you had to
    build it yourself.

    The reason for that, is it changed the classification of

    sudo apt install ffmpeg

    if NVDEC and NVENC had been put in the executable. From
    a religious perspective then, they reached into their build
    script and turned off NVDEC and NVENC.

    Everything they do, there is a religious interpretation.
    Even your Fedora lads can be doing this.

    If you want to crack a Hollywood DVD and copy it, look
    at the number of indirections involved before the package
    downloads from somewhere. This too is a practical issue,
    the "avoidance of lawyers and their ilk".

    You have to keep a weather eye peeled, to figure this stuff out.

    This is also why, on a LiveDVD, you may have to enable multiverse
    and universe yourself. It would be un-religious to have them
    turned on by default. Ubuntu turns them off. LinuxMint (a fork of sorts)
    turns them on. And so it goes. As far as I know, there are more
    cowboys in fedora-land, but I don't live there, and have no forensic
    analysis to offer.

    As far as the "500 distros" go, I have no interest any more, in
    testing them. I tried one maybe a month and a half ago, it crashed
    on boot (two year old computer). Jebus. You have to be especially
    careful when installing them, because the installer will tempt you
    with a "trash disk?" option :-/ Be careful out there. If you were
    to watch me, you'd see me do Next, exclaim "Really???", then Back,
    then try something, try Next, "unhuh", and so on. It's really
    pretty funny.

    It was Debian that caused me to lose three partitions one day.

    And standard rules for installation -- only one disk drive should
    be in the computer during an installation. This prevents shit
    being sprayed all over the place. You can also *back up* that
    single drive (in case Debian is hiding in your room and
    will leap out and yell "surprise!").

    Paul

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 24 05:50:26 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 2024-08-24 12:07 a.m., T wrote:
    On 8/23/24 18:27, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 8/23/2024 5:32 PM, Big Al wrote:
    On 8/23/24 05:27 PM, Newyana2 wrote:
    On 8/23/2024 4:53 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:


    Does Linux no longer support WINE?

       WINE is still there. Not much good. A pain to set up.
    Like most of Linux, you try to use it and end up on a 2
    day search for fixes.

    I disagree.  Yes, Wine is not well tuned.   It has it's rough edges,
    but it works.   It fills a niche for those who left Windows for
    Linux.   I wouldn't run a WIndow CAD program with it, and there are a
    lot of native Linux apps that can mimic what Windows does.

       I actually found it more useful in the early days when one
    could install Windows libraries and fonts. Then they tried to make
    it all Linux, and they split 32-bit vs 64-bit. Last time I tried it
    the whole thing was very complicated and less accessible.

       It's a strange kind of Linux pathology. In the early days it was
    primitive, but it worked if you figured it out. It was like having to
    build a campfire to make coffee. A lot of work. A lot of arcane
    commandline incantations and editing /etc files. But it at least
    made sense.

        Then they jumped from there to locked down "convenience".
    Now there's a complicated coffee maker that doesn't work half
    the time, but it's too complicated and closed to fix it. And there's
    no longer an option to build a campfire.

        So now we have a Mac on acid. It doesn't work right, but it's
    mostly locked down. The worst of both worlds. And when one
    asks the experts for help they get mad: "Stop trying to do things
    and stop trying to understand. And for God's sake never use root.
    Just use Linux and love it. If you screw around then you might break
    something and give Linux a bad reputation."

       I think the primary problem with WINE is that it was never meant
    to support Windows software for Windows refugees. It was meant to
    run Grand Theft Auto for pimple-faced Linux geeks. The didn't copy
    the API to a Linux API so that all Windoows software could work
    equally well. They worked at intercepting API calls, one at a time,
    and rerouting them to Linux libraries. And mostly they only care about
    getting games to work.

    Good analysis.

    Wine and LibreOffice show the downside of Open Source.
    They give away the software for free and then charge
    for the maintenance.  If you can not afford to put
    them on your payroll, you are stuck with their
    charity.  Creates a hostage situation.  And they
    really do deserve to get paid for what they do.

    I also find it very interesting that the wildly complicated
    gaming environment is so well supported in Wine.   There
    are YouTube videos out there showing Fedora's DNF command
    installing hundreds of dependencies for the installation
    of a single Windows game.

    Which might not even end up running. That's the problem: the game might
    run as well as it does in Windows or it might not work at all. If it
    doesn't, you've just wasted a crapload of bandwidth figuring it out and
    written so much data onto your storage that you've accelerated its
    demise. At some point, you have to ask yourself whether the potential
    benefits of using Linux outweigh the downsides. For me, the benefits are
    few. I hate knowing that I've compromised support for my hardware, that
    suspend doesn't work right anymore, that battery life has decreased and
    that the overall quality of software has deteriorated. It doesn't help
    that the world's most brain-damaged, woke individuals have latched onto
    Linux and turned it into a political theater.

    --
    CrudeSausage
    Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 24 07:58:25 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/24/2024 12:07 AM, T wrote:

    Wine and LibreOffice show the downside of Open Source.
    They give away the software for free and then charge
    for the maintenance.  If you can not afford to put
    them on your payroll, you are stuck with their
    charity.  Creates a hostage situation.  And they
    really do deserve to get paid for what they do.

    I also find it very interesting that the wildly complicated
    gaming environment is so well supported in Wine.   There
    are YouTube videos out there showing Fedora's DNF command
    installing hundreds of dependencies for the installation
    of a single Windows game.

    I tried to work with them once. Back in maybe 2008 they
    came to Windows programming newsgroups looking for people
    to help support their own Windows software. I thought that would
    be interesting and expected them to provide API info so that
    I could adapt my software to WINE better.

    The man in charge had no intention of cooperating. He told
    me not to try to adapt. What I was to do was to report bugs,
    then "shepherd" the bug while college student volunteers
    worked on fixing it. There seemed to be an almost military-style
    pecking order. Did the top dog get paid? I don't know. I'd guess
    that he was probably a paid Codeweavers employee. The
    workers were putting in their time as volunteers to make
    connections and get experience, which helps to explain why
    WINE is so game-centric. It also may help explain the economics.
    People are not just spending their weekends coding out of love.
    Codeweavers sells the Crossover product. The student volunteers
    are supporting a commercial product. (Though I have no idea what
    the actual numbers are in terms of money or where the funds come
    from if Crossover doesn't pay its way.)

    I didn't stick around to be a bug-tracking lackey. And what docs
    they had were extremely limited. (Their idea was actually that the
    docs would be comprised of code comments, so that no one would
    have to actually write docs!) They also clearly hadn't made any effort
    to systematize in accord with Windows. The API functions in the
    major DLLs -- especially the 6 or so biggies like shell32, kernel32,
    advapi, user32, etc -- were supported in willy nilly fashion with no
    1 to 1 correspondence to Linux libraries. So it was virtually impossible
    to just look up whether a given function had support.

    The last time I tried WINE, my own software was completely broken.
    I use a number of self-subclassed windows and WINE doesn't see them
    at all. So the program window is largely empty.

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  • From T@21:1/5 to Paul on Sun Aug 25 18:59:41 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/24/24 01:06, Paul wrote:
    Linux is governed by the ten classifications of packages.

    Distros have religion.

    No worse than the fanboi's on this group. Okay,
    the newgroups here for Linux are populated with
    antisocial ass holes. But, yo will not find that on
    the Fedora mailing list. Just a bunch on very
    helpful folks. Sort of like here once you get
    all the fanbois and troll kill filed.

    They don't ship things by default,
    that do not have clear title. Notice how in the past,
    NVidia binary blobs, you were installing those with a
    .run file you downloaded from Nvidia. They weren't in the tree.

    In FFMPEG, notice the Linux version of FFMPEG does not
    have NVDEC and NVENC acceleration. This is a build time
    option (as most things are in FFMPEG). When I wanted
    to have NVDEC and NVENC in Linux FFMPEG (Ubuntu), I
    downloaded the source and compiled it, I added the library,
    all the materials needed for the job were in the tree.
    The version alignment was all correct. Nobody tried to throw
    me off the trail. The rails were greased... but, you had to
    build it yourself.

    The reason for that, is it changed the classification of

    sudo apt install ffmpeg

    if NVDEC and NVENC had been put in the executable. From
    a religious perspective then, they reached into their build
    script and turned off NVDEC and NVENC.

    Everything they do, there is a religious interpretation.
    Even your Fedora lads can be doing this.

    If you want to crack a Hollywood DVD and copy it, look
    at the number of indirections involved before the package
    downloads from somewhere. This too is a practical issue,
    the "avoidance of lawyers and their ilk".

    You have to keep a weather eye peeled, to figure this stuff out.

    This is also why, on a LiveDVD, you may have to enable multiverse
    and universe yourself. It would be un-religious to have them
    turned on by default. Ubuntu turns them off. LinuxMint (a fork of sorts) turns them on. And so it goes. As far as I know, there are more
    cowboys in fedora-land, but I don't live there, and have no forensic
    analysis to offer.

    As far as the "500 distros" go, I have no interest any more, in
    testing them. I tried one maybe a month and a half ago, it crashed
    on boot (two year old computer). Jebus. You have to be especially
    careful when installing them, because the installer will tempt you
    with a "trash disk?" option :-/ Be careful out there. If you were
    to watch me, you'd see me do Next, exclaim "Really???", then Back,
    then try something, try Next, "unhuh", and so on. It's really
    pretty funny.

    It was Debian that caused me to lose three partitions one day.

    And standard rules for installation -- only one disk drive should
    be in the computer during an installation. This prevents shit
    being sprayed all over the place. You can also*back up* that
    single drive (in case Debian is hiding in your room and
    will leap out and yell "surprise!").

    Paul


    Geez Paul,

    Are yu a masochist? You screw around with all those
    weird distro's and all you will find is frustration.

    Here are best distros:

    Arch: the latest greatest bleeding edge. And lots of
    issues because of it. Only use if you are a tester and have
    lots of free time on your hands and are a bit masochistic.

    Fedora: next to bleeding edge and very, very well maintained
    with an ARMY of testers to protect you from the bleeding edge.
    Have fun with the Live USB's:
    https://fedoraproject.org/spins/

    Ubooboo: maintained well once-upon-a-time. Now not so
    much. And have been caught spying. Use if you are curious
    and a little bit masochistic -- most of the old stuff
    on Ubooboo does still work

    This is not religious. This practicality. User what best
    meets your need: Fedora or Windows.

    -T

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 25 22:58:15 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On Sun, 8/25/2024 9:59 PM, T wrote:


    This is not religious.  This practicality.  User what best
    meets your need: Fedora or Windows.

    -T

    Well, never the less, I'm warning you about the content I've
    seen on a web page, which classifies software according
    to the "rules of purity".

    If you see a behavior that seems strange in LinuxLand,
    keep this in mind.

    What I want people to have, is a framework of reference, so
    when they see strange stuff, they will know how to react.

    It's not just about "slapping some software together".

    The inclusion of NVidia as a default driver on hardware in
    Linux, comes with a price. It shortens the interval for
    which hardware is supported. I'm finding failures on Nouveau.
    Whereas, if the developers knew about XVesa, they could
    "run on anything", but choose not to. XVesa is what Puppy uses.
    The bare minimum to use an OS, is a frame buffer at a known
    low-memory address, just like what MSDOS would use. XVesa,
    at a guess, comes close to that. Linux has plenty of fallback
    software, MESA, for filling in the (OpenGL) details. To ensure Linux
    works for the widest range of people, the developers have
    some choices to make. They made the wrong choices.

    Just like if everyone and his dog insists on SSE 4.2 support
    in CPUs. There goes 500 million PCs, into the landfill. That's
    not right. That's not necessary. We don't need no stinkin
    SSE 4.2 for a good time. It would be like if I made AVX512
    a requirement, and people had to throw away their 14900K
    because that's pinned off. And then, only a couple AMD processors
    and the 10900K would still be computing.

    Not many people think about the end users. Not any more.

    Paul

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  • From T@21:1/5 to Paul on Sun Aug 25 21:43:31 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/25/24 19:58, Paul wrote:
    On Sun, 8/25/2024 9:59 PM, T wrote:


    This is not religious.  This practicality.  User what best
    meets your need: Fedora or Windows.

    -T

    Well, never the less, I'm warning you about the content I've
    seen on a web page, which classifies software according
    to the "rules of purity".

    If you see a behavior that seems strange in LinuxLand,
    keep this in mind.

    What I want people to have, is a framework of reference, so
    when they see strange stuff, they will know how to react.

    It's not just about "slapping some software together".

    The inclusion of NVidia as a default driver on hardware in
    Linux, comes with a price. It shortens the interval for
    which hardware is supported. I'm finding failures on Nouveau.
    Whereas, if the developers knew about XVesa, they could
    "run on anything", but choose not to. XVesa is what Puppy uses.
    The bare minimum to use an OS, is a frame buffer at a known
    low-memory address, just like what MSDOS would use. XVesa,
    at a guess, comes close to that. Linux has plenty of fallback
    software, MESA, for filling in the (OpenGL) details. To ensure Linux
    works for the widest range of people, the developers have
    some choices to make. They made the wrong choices.

    Just like if everyone and his dog insists on SSE 4.2 support
    in CPUs. There goes 500 million PCs, into the landfill. That's
    not right. That's not necessary. We don't need no stinkin
    SSE 4.2 for a good time. It would be like if I made AVX512
    a requirement, and people had to throw away their 14900K
    because that's pinned off. And then, only a couple AMD processors
    and the 10900K would still be computing.

    Not many people think about the end users. Not any more.

    Paul

    Not seeing any of these problems myself or on the mailing
    lists. That does not mean they are not there though.

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 26 09:40:13 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 2024-08-25 9:59 p.m., T wrote:

    This is not religious.  This practicality.  User what best
    meets your need: Fedora or Windows.

    Fedora, like Red Hat and IBM, believe in "diversity" which includes
    hiring black people over Whites regardless of how incompetent they might
    be. They also ensure that Whites do not get promoted within the company. Additionally, they bend the knee to the fag flag and will gladly get rid
    of you if you refuse to.

    Bryan Lunduke has exposed them on numerous occasions in the past.

    --
    CrudeSausage
    Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king

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  • From T@21:1/5 to CrudeSausage on Mon Aug 26 19:03:29 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/26/24 06:40, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2024-08-25 9:59 p.m., T wrote:

    This is not religious.  This practicality.  User what best
    meets your need: Fedora or Windows.

    Fedora, like Red Hat and IBM, believe in "diversity" which includes
    hiring black people over Whites regardless of how incompetent they might
    be. They also ensure that Whites do not get promoted within the company. Additionally, they bend the knee to the fag flag and will gladly get rid
    of you if you refuse to.

    Bryan Lunduke has exposed them on numerous occasions in the past.



    Go Woke, Go Broke. DEI is disgusting racism.

    Fedora is only managed by RedHat: web sites, bugzilla,
    that sort of thing. It is mostly volunteers and is
    merit based.

    RedHat would not dare push diversity racism on Fedora.
    There would be no Fedroa if all those competent Chinese
    and Indian volunteer programmers left do to Woke racism.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 27 09:17:40 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 2024-08-26 10:03 p.m., T wrote:
    On 8/26/24 06:40, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2024-08-25 9:59 p.m., T wrote:

    This is not religious.  This practicality.  User what best
    meets your need: Fedora or Windows.

    Fedora, like Red Hat and IBM, believe in "diversity" which includes
    hiring black people over Whites regardless of how incompetent they
    might be. They also ensure that Whites do not get promoted within the
    company. Additionally, they bend the knee to the fag flag and will
    gladly get rid of you if you refuse to.

    Bryan Lunduke has exposed them on numerous occasions in the past.



    Go Woke, Go Broke.  DEI is disgusting racism.

    Agreed wholeheartedly.

    Fedora is only managed by RedHat: web sites, bugzilla,
    that sort of thing.  It is mostly volunteers and is
    merit based.

    RedHat would not dare push diversity racism on Fedora.
    There would be no Fedroa if all those competent Chinese
    and Indian volunteer programmers left do to Woke racism.

    You might want to read Lunduke's articles then. I believe that a video summarizing his findings is available on YouTube, but I tend not to
    venture into that censorship cesspool so I'll have to assume that it is.
    Either way, other people have since reported the same thing.

    --
    CrudeSausage
    Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From T@21:1/5 to CrudeSausage on Tue Aug 27 13:17:36 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/27/24 06:17, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2024-08-26 10:03 p.m., T wrote:
    On 8/26/24 06:40, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2024-08-25 9:59 p.m., T wrote:

    This is not religious.  This practicality.  User what best
    meets your need: Fedora or Windows.

    Fedora, like Red Hat and IBM, believe in "diversity" which includes
    hiring black people over Whites regardless of how incompetent they
    might be. They also ensure that Whites do not get promoted within the
    company. Additionally, they bend the knee to the fag flag and will
    gladly get rid of you if you refuse to.

    Bryan Lunduke has exposed them on numerous occasions in the past.



    Go Woke, Go Broke.  DEI is disgusting racism.

    Agreed wholeheartedly.

    Fedora is only managed by RedHat: web sites, bugzilla,
    that sort of thing.  It is mostly volunteers and is
    merit based.

    RedHat would not dare push diversity racism on Fedora.
    There would be no Fedroa if all those competent Chinese
    and Indian volunteer programmers left do to Woke racism.

    You might want to read Lunduke's articles then. I believe that a video summarizing his findings is available on YouTube, but I tend not to
    venture into that censorship cesspool so I'll have to assume that it is. Either way, other people have since reported the same thing.


    The stock holders will eventually demand a return to
    merit based hiring. To quote President Trump
    "Everything Woke eventually goes to s***."

    On the bright side, Harley Davidson just dumped
    DEI racism.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 27 20:42:05 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 2024-08-27 4:17 p.m., T wrote:
    On 8/27/24 06:17, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2024-08-26 10:03 p.m., T wrote:
    On 8/26/24 06:40, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2024-08-25 9:59 p.m., T wrote:

    This is not religious.  This practicality.  User what best
    meets your need: Fedora or Windows.

    Fedora, like Red Hat and IBM, believe in "diversity" which includes
    hiring black people over Whites regardless of how incompetent they
    might be. They also ensure that Whites do not get promoted within
    the company. Additionally, they bend the knee to the fag flag and
    will gladly get rid of you if you refuse to.

    Bryan Lunduke has exposed them on numerous occasions in the past.



    Go Woke, Go Broke.  DEI is disgusting racism.

    Agreed wholeheartedly.

    Fedora is only managed by RedHat: web sites, bugzilla,
    that sort of thing.  It is mostly volunteers and is
    merit based.

    RedHat would not dare push diversity racism on Fedora.
    There would be no Fedroa if all those competent Chinese
    and Indian volunteer programmers left do to Woke racism.

    You might want to read Lunduke's articles then. I believe that a video
    summarizing his findings is available on YouTube, but I tend not to
    venture into that censorship cesspool so I'll have to assume that it
    is. Either way, other people have since reported the same thing.


    The stock holders will eventually demand a return to
    merit based hiring.  To quote President Trump
    "Everything Woke eventually goes to s***."

    On the bright side, Harley Davidson just dumped
    DEI racism.

    Them and Jack Daniels. However, they only dropped it because their DEI practises were about to be exposed. They preemptively dropped them to
    avoid suffering the fate of Bud Light.

    --
    CrudeSausage
    Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From T@21:1/5 to CrudeSausage on Tue Aug 27 18:43:38 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/27/24 17:42, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2024-08-27 4:17 p.m., T wrote:
    On 8/27/24 06:17, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2024-08-26 10:03 p.m., T wrote:
    On 8/26/24 06:40, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2024-08-25 9:59 p.m., T wrote:

    This is not religious.  This practicality.  User what best
    meets your need: Fedora or Windows.

    Fedora, like Red Hat and IBM, believe in "diversity" which includes
    hiring black people over Whites regardless of how incompetent they
    might be. They also ensure that Whites do not get promoted within
    the company. Additionally, they bend the knee to the fag flag and
    will gladly get rid of you if you refuse to.

    Bryan Lunduke has exposed them on numerous occasions in the past.



    Go Woke, Go Broke.  DEI is disgusting racism.

    Agreed wholeheartedly.

    Fedora is only managed by RedHat: web sites, bugzilla,
    that sort of thing.  It is mostly volunteers and is
    merit based.

    RedHat would not dare push diversity racism on Fedora.
    There would be no Fedroa if all those competent Chinese
    and Indian volunteer programmers left do to Woke racism.

    You might want to read Lunduke's articles then. I believe that a
    video summarizing his findings is available on YouTube, but I tend
    not to venture into that censorship cesspool so I'll have to assume
    that it is. Either way, other people have since reported the same thing. >>>

    The stock holders will eventually demand a return to
    merit based hiring.  To quote President Trump
    "Everything Woke eventually goes to s***."

    On the bright side, Harley Davidson just dumped
    DEI racism.

    Them and Jack Daniels. However, they only dropped it because their DEI practises were about to be exposed. They preemptively dropped them to
    avoid suffering the fate of Bud Light.


    Lowe's just dropped that nonsense too.

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 28 08:57:12 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 2024-08-27 9:43 p.m., T wrote:
    On 8/27/24 17:42, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2024-08-27 4:17 p.m., T wrote:
    On 8/27/24 06:17, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2024-08-26 10:03 p.m., T wrote:
    On 8/26/24 06:40, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2024-08-25 9:59 p.m., T wrote:

    This is not religious.  This practicality.  User what best
    meets your need: Fedora or Windows.

    Fedora, like Red Hat and IBM, believe in "diversity" which
    includes hiring black people over Whites regardless of how
    incompetent they might be. They also ensure that Whites do not get >>>>>> promoted within the company. Additionally, they bend the knee to
    the fag flag and will gladly get rid of you if you refuse to.

    Bryan Lunduke has exposed them on numerous occasions in the past.



    Go Woke, Go Broke.  DEI is disgusting racism.

    Agreed wholeheartedly.

    Fedora is only managed by RedHat: web sites, bugzilla,
    that sort of thing.  It is mostly volunteers and is
    merit based.

    RedHat would not dare push diversity racism on Fedora.
    There would be no Fedroa if all those competent Chinese
    and Indian volunteer programmers left do to Woke racism.

    You might want to read Lunduke's articles then. I believe that a
    video summarizing his findings is available on YouTube, but I tend
    not to venture into that censorship cesspool so I'll have to assume
    that it is. Either way, other people have since reported the same
    thing.


    The stock holders will eventually demand a return to
    merit based hiring.  To quote President Trump
    "Everything Woke eventually goes to s***."

    On the bright side, Harley Davidson just dumped
    DEI racism.

    Them and Jack Daniels. However, they only dropped it because their DEI
    practises were about to be exposed. They preemptively dropped them to
    avoid suffering the fate of Bud Light.

    Lowe's just dropped that nonsense too.

    Imagine working at that company and being willing to alienate more than
    half of your client base in a vain effort to satisfy less than 1% of the
    global population. The people who demanded that Jack Daniels, John
    Deere, Budweiser, Harley Davidson, Gillette and Lowe's bend the knee to
    faggot community are people who wouldn't buy anything from those
    aforementioned companies anyway.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From T@21:1/5 to CrudeSausage on Wed Aug 28 18:14:36 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 8/28/24 05:57, CrudeSausage wrote:
    The stock holders will eventually demand a return to
    merit based hiring.  To quote President Trump
    "Everything Woke eventually goes to s***."

    On the bright side, Harley Davidson just dumped
    DEI racism.

    Them and Jack Daniels. However, they only dropped it because their
    DEI practises were about to be exposed. They preemptively dropped
    them to avoid suffering the fate of Bud Light.

    Lowe's just dropped that nonsense too.

    Imagine working at that company and being willing to alienate more than
    half of your client base in a vain effort to satisfy less than 1% of the global population. The people who demanded that Jack Daniels, John
    Deere, Budweiser, Harley Davidson, Gillette and Lowe's bend the knee to faggot community are people who wouldn't buy anything from those aforementioned companies anyway.

    Me wonders how many doors will have to fall off or planes
    face plant or stock dividends tank before Boeing return to
    merit based hiring.

    Apparently M$ is returning to merit based hiring. Hope
    if will help w12

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 29 11:43:21 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

    On 2024-08-28 9:14 p.m., T wrote:
    On 8/28/24 05:57, CrudeSausage wrote:
    The stock holders will eventually demand a return to
    merit based hiring.  To quote President Trump
    "Everything Woke eventually goes to s***."

    On the bright side, Harley Davidson just dumped
    DEI racism.

    Them and Jack Daniels. However, they only dropped it because their
    DEI practises were about to be exposed. They preemptively dropped
    them to avoid suffering the fate of Bud Light.

    Lowe's just dropped that nonsense too.

    Imagine working at that company and being willing to alienate more
    than half of your client base in a vain effort to satisfy less than 1%
    of the global population. The people who demanded that Jack Daniels,
    John Deere, Budweiser, Harley Davidson, Gillette and Lowe's bend the
    knee to faggot community are people who wouldn't buy anything from
    those aforementioned companies anyway.

    Me wonders how many doors will have to fall off or planes
    face plant or stock dividends tank before Boeing return to
    merit based hiring.

    Deaths resulting from the incompetent workers they hired will be
    considered little more than numbers until a very important person, like
    some woman who makes B-rated movies, ends up dying. Don't forget that
    you're all unimportant in comparison to a talentless musician or actor.

    Apparently M$ is returning to merit based hiring.  Hope
    if will help w12

    If it results in machines that compete properly with Apple's, I'll be
    very happy. As it is, Apple beats PCs in every category that isn't
    gaming. Sure Windows is more usable in business environments, but home
    users exposed to MacOS are likely to prefer it over Windows, especially
    since it is often tied to true independence because of its great battery
    life and excellent interconnection with other Apple devices. The
    company's support for ARM processors is a great first step, but they
    need to be _much_ better than the x86-64 counterparts.

    --
    CrudeSausage
    Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king

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