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

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

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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

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

Maybe this is my chance to actually fix something kernel related

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

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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