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I've come to the conclusion that the command line is peak UI. It's fast, and it doesn't freeze as often. I had an issue where I tried to delete a task in the Windows Task Scheduler and every time I would try, the UI froze on me. I piped the below into Powershell and it was deleted! No lag, no nothing!

Unregister-ScheduledTask -TaskName "RClone Backup Writings"

Just set up the swap file for my @linuxmint.

I used the "dreaded" #terminal, but, honestly, it was easy. I just looked up how to do it in the Linux Mint forum, copied the commands, and made 1 adjustment for the file size. Including reading an article about the recommended size, it took all of about 15 minutes.

Feeling pretty good that I was able to do it so easily.

💻 FreeBSD CUDA drm-61-kmod 💻

"Just going to test the current pkg driver, this will only take a second...", the old refrain goes. Surely, it will not punt away an hour or so of messing about in loader.conf on this EPYC system...

- Here are some notes to back-track a botched/crashing driver kernel panic situation.
- Standard stuff, nothing new over the years here with loader prompt.
- A few directives are specific to this system, though may provide a useful general reference.
- The server has an integrated GPU in addition to nvidia pcie, so a module blacklist for the "amdgpu" driver is necessary (EPYC 4564P).

Step 1: during boot-up, "exit to loader prompt"
Step 2: set/unset the values as needed at the loader prompt

unset nvidia_load
unset nvidia_modeset_load
unset hw.nvidiadrm.modeset
set module_blacklist=amdgpu,nvidia,nvidia_modeset
set machdep.hyperthreading_intr_allowed=0
set verbose_loading=YES
set boot_verbose=YES
set acpi_dsdt_load=YES
set audit_event_load=YES
kern.consmsgbuf_size=1048576
set loader_menu_title=waffenschwester
boot

Step 3: login to standard tty shell
Step 4: edit /boot/loader.conf (and maybe .local)
Step 5: edit /etc/rc.conf (and maybe .local)
Step 6: debug the vast output from kern.consmsgbuf logs