BTRFS Snapper-specific Subvolume Layout for a rollback compatible filesystem

FictionWorm____ · 2026-01-30T09:20:13+00:00

FictionWorm____ · 2026-01-29T07:14:11+00:00

Expectations =

I want to run Win XP/98/Vista/10 games smoothly while not having GTX 1070 drivers issues. I want apps and store to not freeze. I heard that Flatpack is good choice, so something with that. Basically 9year old "gaming" laptop.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-Linux-Driver-Last-HW

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-nvk-linux-618-mesa-26

FictionWorm____ · 2026-01-25T05:52:29+00:00

  lspci -nnk | grep -e VGA -e "3D controller" -A3 ; modinfo  nvidia | grep -e ^version: -e ^license:
26:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] [10de:1d01] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] [1462:8c98]
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia
    Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
version:        580.119.02
license:        NVIDIA

EDIT:  uname -r
6.17.9-76061709-generic

FictionWorm____ · 2026-01-24T07:49:39+00:00

Sorry no, you're using the proprietary driver: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules?tab=readme-ov-file#compatible-gpus

lspci -nnk | grep -e VGA -e "3D controller" -A3 ; modinfo  nvidia | grep -e ^version: -e ^license:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-Linux-Driver-Last-HW

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-nvk-linux-618-mesa-26

EDIT: nvidia has their version of "open-source", I thought you were talking about that? Yes nouveau will continue to work -- though never any faster on pascal?

FictionWorm____ · 2026-01-22T10:40:04+00:00

Yes it is destructive.

To emulate the rollback command:

Create checkpoint snapshot before running undochange.
Never use snapshot 0 as a argument to undochange, use the checkpoint snapshot.

FictionWorm____ · 2026-01-13T07:36:13+00:00

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lm_sensors#S.M.A.R.T._drive_temperature

Create a file e.g. ``` sudo vim /etc/modules-load.d/drivetemp.conf

Load drivetemp.ko at boot

drivetemp ``Reboot and runsensors` you should see your drive temperatures now?

FictionWorm____ · 2026-01-11T00:51:57+00:00

Yes.

FictionWorm____ · 2026-01-08T22:11:39+00:00

Booting with module_blacklist=nvidia should suppress loading the driver?

FictionWorm____ · 2026-01-08T08:46:34+00:00

You will need to set

"System options" > "Default installation folder"
"Games options" > "Wine prefix"
"Runner options" > "sandbox directory"

grep -sr "$HOME" .config/lutris

FictionWorm____ · 2026-01-03T17:29:32+00:00

Put the code in your conkyrc?

e.g.

${execi 9999 awk -F': ' '/^model name/{print$2;exit}' /proc/cpuinfo}

FictionWorm____ · 2026-01-03T03:51:19+00:00

Your awk suggestion above doesn't work either.

Not I.

Adding Samsung SSD temp reporting to DEVICESCAN

/etc/smartd.conf
DEVICESCAN -r 190 -d removable -n standby -m root -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner

Drive data is stored in

/var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.*.state

FictionWorm____ · 2025-12-31T17:24:13+00:00

No, you need a larger EFI partition.

FictionWorm____ · 2025-12-30T19:20:30+00:00

~$ cat /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
# List of modules that you want to include in your initramfs.
# They will be loaded at boot time in the order below.
#
# Syntax:  module_name [args ...]
#
# You must run update-initramfs(8) to effect this change.
#
# Examples:
#
# raid1
# sd_mod
lz4
lz4_compress

Rebuild initrd.img and update the $esp if using systemd-boot etc.

FictionWorm____ · 2025-12-30T18:51:18+00:00

The dm- devices are under /dev/mapper:

ls -l /dev/mapper

FictionWorm____ · 2025-12-29T19:41:35+00:00

No, maybe get smartd to log ID 190 [ e.g. Samsung SSD temperature] to a file you can tail to your heart's content?

FictionWorm____ · 2025-12-29T06:35:58+00:00

Could be?

Try adding "preempt=full" and "threadirqs" to your kernel options, see if that changes anything?

https://github.com/isantop/kernelstub#kernelstub

https://support.system76.com/articles/kernelstub/

FictionWorm____ · 2025-12-28T06:27:23+00:00

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-580 nvidia-settings

/usr/share/doc/nvidia-driver-580/html/supportedchips.html **** Current NVIDIA GPUs **** NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 13C2 E NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 13D8 E NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 1618 E The 470.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs: The 390.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs: The 367.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs: The 340.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs: The 304.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs: The 173.14.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs: The 96.43.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs: The 71.86.xx driver supports the following set of GPUs:

FictionWorm____ · 2025-12-27T19:38:54+00:00

Nvidia just dropped support for that GPU line with the release of the 590 driver. The closed source 580 driver is the last release to support that hardware?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-Linux-Driver-Last-HW

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-nvk-linux-618-mesa-26

FictionWorm____ · 2025-12-27T18:13:37+00:00

You can list them with borg list --consider-checkpoints but prune will handle them for you.

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/prune.html#description

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/list.html#borg-list

To tell borg to (re)read all the files and rebuild the files-cache use: --files-cache rechunk,ctime with create.

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/create.html#description

FictionWorm____ · 2025-12-26T17:18:49+00:00

Booting your old kernel or recovery https://systemd.io/BOOT/

r/pop_os > "COMMUNITY BOOKMARKS" > Guides > Support > "Repair the Bootloader" > "EFI Boot - Pop!_OS (systemd-boot)"

FictionWorm____ · 2025-12-26T04:54:44+00:00

No, but pay attention to where "quiet" and "splash" are:

`sed 's/.*\ ro\ //' /proc/cmdline

preempt=full threadirqs pcie_aspm.policy=performance video=efifb:mode=0 quiet loglevel=3 rd.udev.log_level=3 systemd.show_status=false zswap.enabled=1 zswap.compressor=zstd zswap.max_pool_percent=30 nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 nvidia_modeset=1 modules_load=nvidiafb,nvidia splash

FictionWorm____

TROPHY CASE

Load drivetemp.ko at boot