Boot problem after (Kernel) upgrade, more info

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 19 Sept 2021 at 21:09, Keith <keith at caramail.com> wrote:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-340/+bug/1938978

There is a possible fix in this thread -- Grizzly, you should check it out.

But saying that, it may be temporary.

> You have a few options:
>
> 1. Upgrade your card to a model Nvidia officially supports. It dropped
> support for cards using the 340 driver at the end of 2019, and there
> have been no updates for the 340 driver issued from Nvidia since then.
> Ubuntu has already dropped its support in 21.04 and 21.10

Yup. I have had similar issues on openSUSE. I was running an nVidia
Quadro NVS 295 card, which needed nVidia
driver 340.24. This is an old driver, no longer maintained and no
longer supported in current kernels. I was running Tumbleweed,
openSUSE's rolling-release distro, and eventually my only choice of
kernel was on that the 340 driver no longer compiles on.

It is a massive pain, but these cards are about 10-12 years old now,
from the era when a Core 2 Duo was a current CPU.

I had the same issue when Ubuntu 12.04 came out -- the first and .01
releases were OK, then it switched to a kernel and X.org version that
did not support the last AMD flgrx driver for my laptop's GPU. Once
this happens you don't really have a choice any more; it's either
switch to the FOSS driver, if that works, or change your GPU --
impossible in a laptop -- or replace the machine if you want to run
current OSes.

For me back then, the freebie AMD driver was all right -- flickery but
it worked -- but over the next few Ubuntu releases it stabilized and
became perfectly usable, including things like driving a big-screen TV
from my VGA port and so on.

If the nouveau driver doesn't work for you, then I think changing
graphics card is your best bet.

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