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On my home system I've been running 2x RTX 2070's on Fedora and have had serious enough problems. It's been fairly stable for a while, but the last week or so I keep having the screen go black and not come back. I'm going to try Debian as it's supposed to have better support for nvidia cards. I've been using Fedora or Redhat for a long time, and I'd rather not switch, but these driver issues make the system unusable.

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So one is for graphics and the other is for CUDA or something?

Yes, the Debian setup is going to be just for cuda and ml. It's intended for cheap and easy experiments, focusing on ml for small systems.

Hmm, I’m still confused sorry. To are you devoting both dGPUs to GPGPU stuff and using the iGPU for the desktop? Or is one dGPU doing double duty?

I wonder if it is worth trying the iGPU, if you haven’t already.

It would be a shame to distro-hop for a non-preference-based reason like this.

The screen goes dark & unrecoverable during normal use, not while using ml tools, so I just assumed it was a problem with nvidia's drivers being generally disagreeable with Fedora.

You make a a good point, I've been having one card do double-duty as hdmi output and GPGPU. I'll try the motherboard's built-in hdmi and see how that goes.

I've been really busy with other stuff for a few weeks and haven't really thought about the best way to fix this. Thanks for the suggestion!

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