That is the nouveau driver.
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Why should they? Not there problem!!! Open-source nvidia driver is “nouveau”.
There may still be a couple of distros that deal with nvidia
, better than others!!!
Loved that movie!!!
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I did try but it gave me ‘Device Descriptor Error’ and this time I checked it with a newer Ryzen 5 PC and turned out that my PC aren’t supplying that much power to the USB3 ports which these distros’ developers have defined in their codes.Only Fedora is coping with that and isn’t giving any error. Looks like Fedora developers gave a lots of thoughts when developing. I am surprised that no one except Fedora developers knows or thought about how to overcome this ‘Device descriptor error’ problem!!!
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But i dont think the change in os should affect the power delivered through usb problem. I think u need to check again
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I have installed, uninstalled and reinstalled all the OS Debian (free and non-free ISO), Mint, Pop, Rocky (8.8 and 9.4) and Fedora (WS - Gnome & XORG, KDE, XFCE) several times, since Yesterday morning to today’s evening and the results were same, until I checked with another PC with Ryzen 5. Maybe the PSU of my PC to blame because it is supplying the power to the board and other components integrated into the board.
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No. It is not. It is like default Windows display driver which doesn’t support the graphics card.
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It doesn’t work with the graphics card. It is more like ‘Windows Basic Display Driver’.
As per my knowledge, Mint, POP and Rocky are among them but these are giving me ‘Device Descriptor error’ which seems like a problem of my PSU.
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PSU?
How did you conclude that?
It does work. Right, it doesn’t allow to use all features, which is not a secret.
You are right, that a prop. nvidia driver covers all features of the card, your problem is, that your card is old, and around kernel 5.x something changed in interfaces, when nvidia decided the upgraded prop. drivers NOT to fully support all older cards. My luck was that my that time nvidia card (gtx 1060) was still supported, so I did not notice anything. You suffer because your card is older, which got lost support.
So your options seem to be:
1- get a newer card
2- use nouveau
3- downgrade to older kernel maybe
4- you may check, wether you find some clue here:
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I didn’t conclude anything. It’s just a thought because I have searnched the internet extensively to find the cause of ‘Device Descriptor Error’ and what I found is that the cause of this error is the USB/USB2/USB3 ports are not supplying enough power to the drives connected to these ports. Now these ports are embedded into the motherboard and the PSU supplies power to all these devices through the motherboard. So, may be the PSU is failing to supply the required power.
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If it is the PSU, then it is fairly easy to change!! Get at least 600watt modular PSU and do the swap, fairly simple!!! I am assuming this is an ATX case!!!
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If the PSU was failing it would affect more than the usb port.
You could try a powered usb hub attached to the port… see if you can boot the usb drive when it is on the hub.
The PSU issue is not related to the video card problems
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USB3 is usually limited at near 1A, USB2,USB1 500mA maximum.
From that you can calculate the power: 5W for USB3, 2,5W for USB2, and USB1.
So if everything is correct, you can still expect powering problems if you connect a device designed for USB3 to an USB2 port.
Now think about value ranges:
Videocard (GT730) in your PC may require about 50W on load, I don’t know the CPU, but its power requirement isprobably in the same range, say it needs 65W.
How does that compare to the power expectable through USB?
I highly doubt the PSU is the culprit - if it would be, how would Fedora still boot from the same USB?
This is a very good advice actually!
The USB device connected may powered up way before the motherboard is switched on…
I believe, Fedoras kernel may be tuned to be more patient towards USB, and tolerates more time waiting for a device, this can be important especially if the root FS is on that USB. You can have some tuning on this on either Debian or its derivatives passing some kernel parameter on bootup.
Now it’s not in my mind, but I remember @Rosika has played with such kernel parameters, not because to be able to boot at all, but solving some stability problems, as I vaguely remember.
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I learned something there
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Yess exactly!!!
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Yes. Full ATX and the PSU is a CoolerMaster 600 watt 80+ Bronze. 
That is a very good PSU, hard to believe you are having issues, you sure it is not a mobo issue.
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I’m quite sure, it’s not a PSU issue.
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I am not sure. 
I think, I have to think about a new PC minus storage devices.
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Can you tell about the current motherboard?
CPU, RAM?
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My PC specs:
AMD FX4300 Black Edition
Gigabyte 970A-DS3P full ATX motherboard
12GB Kingston HyperX Fury 1866MHz
Asus Nvidia GT730 2GB DDR5 GPU
CoolerMaster 600 watt 80+ Bronze PSU
CoolerMaster Full Tower cabinet.
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