What to do with OLD nvidia

[Keith]

On 10/2/21 8:19 AM, Bret Busby wrote:

[snip]

>
> 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
> "
>

$ dpkg -l nvidia* |grep ii

will list all packages installed on your system with the string "nvidia"
at the beginning of their name. However, you've already identified which
driver your system is using (390.144), so its a bit moot.

Nvidia classifies the 390 driver series as a legacy release, but
continues to officially support it until the end of 2022. Ubuntu should
support it for at least that long as well.

--
Keith