That’s starting to look very much like an issue that only VMWare can address, so I’ll pursue it over on their boards. This all leads me to think that the nvidia driver issues I’ve encountered result from the kernel changes that are apparently needed to get Workstation Pro 16 running on this machine. I turned on persistent journaling ( mkdir /var/log/journal) so the system will hopefully leave behind a little bit of information if it dies. I don’t know enough about the X server to make much sense of them and hope I don’t have to go further. Jul 28 18:47:16 localhost journal: gsd-power: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1024. Jul 28 18:47:16 localhost journal: gsd-media-keys: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1024. Jul 28 18:47:16 localhost journal: gsd-clipboard: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1024. Jul 28 18:47:16 localhost cupsd: REQUEST localhost - 'POST / HTTP/1.1' 200 151 Cancel-Subscription client-error-not-found Jul 28 18:47:16 localhost journal: gsd-color: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1024. Jul 28 18:47:16 localhost journal: gsd-keyboard: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1024. I do see some complaints in /var/log/messages that look a bit concerning: Jul 28 18:47:16 localhost journal: gsd-xsettings: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1024. It’s been running with no complaints and no crashes for about two hours now. The result was somewhat unstable – it would crash and restart after about an hour of being idle – until I let it update itself. For this build, I let Anaconda do whatever it wanted automagically. In any case, I used an external tool (Acronis Disk Director) to shrink the Windows 10 SSD partition down to 100GB, leaving a total of ~830GB for Linux to play with (I left the various recovery partitions as-is).

It’s taken me all day to do so, what with reverse-engineering various log facilities and lots of reboot-and-wait cycles.Īlong the way, I discovered that this XPS 8940 has a 1TB HDD that I didn’t know about! I bought it because it has a 1TB SSD, and I guess I didn’t read the specs very carefully. I have persuaded myself that Rocky Linux itself is fine on this Dell tower and has no problems with the graphics card.

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