What to do with OLD nvidia

[Bret Busby]

On 02/10/2021, Grizzly via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 02 October 2021  at 6:17, Bret Busby wrote:

<snip>

>>In the Control Center path that I previously cited, a version number
>>of the driver is displayed; 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.144 , under OpenGL.
>
> Can you now check if you have that driver on your system
>
> Sudo apt-cache policy nvidia*
>
> should show what (if any) nvidia drivers you have
>
>
> I had the 340 driver and fixed my system with
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelebek333/nvidia-legacy
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt install xorg-modulepath-fix
>
> It's worth try
>

The output of the command
sudo apt-cache policy nvidia*
is about 16000 lines long (1554, if anyone is worried about the "about
1600 not being sufficiently precise).

If a string appropriate for filtering the output using grep, would be
provided, I could try that. Multiple lines have " installed (none)" or
something to that effect, so, simply using "| grep installed" would
still produce a long output.

In seeking 390, I found

"
nvidia-driver-390:
  Installed: 390.144-0ubuntu0.21.04.1
  Candidate: 390.144-0ubuntu0.21.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 390.144-0ubuntu0.21.04.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
hirsute-updates/restricted amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
hirsute-security/restricted amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     390.141-0ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/restricted amd64 Packages
"

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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