NVidia RTX 3060 and 21.04

[chris hermansen]

Ed and list,

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 7:20 PM EdLesMann <edlesmann at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 4/10/21 10:38 PM, chris hermansen wrote:
>  > Hello again everyone,
>  >
>  > Hoping to beg a bit of advice.  I have a brand new computer with an
> NVidida
>  > RTX 3060 and I'm running the daily 21.04 on it.  Install goes fine but
>  > "after awhile" I seem to end up with a manually installed driver for the
>  > RTX and "after a bit more while" all of a sudden I'm looking at a 1320 X
>  > 768 display.
>  >
>  > I've made this problem go away temporarily with
>  >
>  > sudo apt purge nvidia-\*
>  >
>  > and poof I'm back to a reasonable 1920 x 1080 display.
>  >
>  > As far as I know I did not "manually install" anything.  I'm a bit
> lost as
>  > to how to report this as a bug, given that it's an NVidia thing and also
>  > this weird "manually installed" package.
>  >
>  > If anyone has any suggestions I'd be most grateful.
>  >
>

Ed, thank you very much for the lengthy and useful commentary.  As you
suggested, I looked in /var/log/dpkg.log and found the purge command that I
issued.  Just before that, there is a block of 18 or so lines related to
nvidia linux-modules and nvidia-kernel-common stuff; three of those are
"remove" commands (?) and the rest are all "status" commands (?).  The
stuff I removed with the apt purge is pretty clear.  So I think I'll take a
stab at a bug report involving those packages.

I think I led you astray - this RTX 3060 is sufficiently new that nouveau
doesn't know what it is, so I was trying to revert to the known working
nvidia closed-source drivers from whatever was "manually installed".

Again, thanks a lot!


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