Commodore OS and nVidia GTX 1080 / Drivers / No Boot (solution?)

[mexiace]

Hi all,

Trying to get Commodore OS working with my nVidia GTX 1080 video card.

1. Installed multiple times from scratch with and without card installed.
2. Updated kernel with and without card installed.
3. Installed nvidia-detect (sees the card just fine).
4. Installed nvidia-driver
5. Upon reboot it doesn't boot all the way, stuck at a screen repeating:
" ath10k_pci Error of this agent is reported first"

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

[LeoNigro]

Did you try the installer from:
System --> Control Centre
then the icon Additional Tools
then the NVidia driver installer icon.

[mexiace]

Yes. From a fresh install and trying to run System->Control Centre->Additional Tools->Install Nvdia Driver I get:

"There was a problem with the apt-get update......."

Most likely something wrong with the default repositories.

[digtic]

I'm trying install with GTX960 and I have same problem. Any clue what trying next?

[LeoNigro]

I really hope this is not the problem.

I've noticed that there are some apps that do not have public keys, which could be breaking the install script.
We need to either get the public keys for Google Earth and Tor Project or get apt to trust them.

You can see the problem immediately: (Trying to fix and going in circles.)

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sudo apt update -y --fix-missing --allow-unauthenticated
sudo apt upgrade -y --fix-missing --allow-unauthenticated
sudo apt autoremove -y

[LeoNigro]

Okay. Finally a solution.

The Google Earth public key can be fixed via the following: (MX-Linux to the rescue)

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sudo checkaptgpg

Everyone should issue that command.

TorProject is proving more difficult to work out. They renewed their public key and every online suggestion on how to fix the issue doesn't work.
If you have a better idea, then go for it, but as far as I am a concerned, the Tor Browser has turned out to be more effort than it is worth.
Therefore I suggest we disable updates to the TOR browser by removing their repository listing entirely.
This won't prevent you from using the TorBrowser, just prevent updates, which weren't happening anyway.

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sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tor.list

Then do an update of Commodore OS, or if you're stuck in text mode, the aforementioned update commands.

When this is done. Have another go of the nvidia driver installation that was discussed earlier in this thread.

Let me know if this fixes the issue. If so we will require a critical patch update.

[LeoNigro]

If problems persist with the nvidia drivers you might want to try out the following...
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/hardware/nvidi ... -recovery/

[mexiace]

Thanks for this. I am able to install the drivers now however upon reboot I still get the blinking cursor on the top left and it doesn't get past that. Have to press CTRL-ALT-F1 to login and remove the nvidia drivers to be able to boot back into OS / GUI.