Latest NVidia driver f-d up my video

[Nils Kassube]

On 16.08.24 Little Girl wrote:
> Nils Kassube via ubuntu-users wrote:
> >Little Girl wrote:
> >> Nils Kassube via ubuntu-users wrote:
> >> >Little Girl wrote:
> >> >> Nils Kassube via ubuntu-users wrote:
>
> >> That didn't manage to remove them,
> >
> >Hmm, interesting. Using "dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall" I
> >got only a single entry for libgnutls30:i386, In synaptic I couldn't
> >find an entry for it but with "apt-get purge libgnutls30:i386" the
> >entry vanished.
>
> Even more interesting. When I do that command, I get 250 entries, 93
> of which are for NVIDIA.
>
> Could it be our desktops? I use Kubuntu and maybe there's something
> it doesn't do that your desktop does as far as cleanup is concerned.

I'm using Kubuntu as well but 24.04 so I think it doesn't depend on the desktop. OTOH, maybe it is the GUI package manager. As I understand it, the GUT package managers we use (I think you use muon while I prefer synaptic) are only a frontend for dkpg which is the same for all desktops. I have two older Kubuntu systems accessible on this machine and with the command "dpkg --get-selections --root=/PATH/TO/OLD/SYSTEM |grep deinstall" I get one entry for 14.04 and three entries for 20.04.

> I'm also curious to find out from each of you how your driver is
> managed. As part of the Kubuntu installation, I opted in when the
> offer was made to have Ubuntu/NVIDIA manage my video driver for me.
> I'm not sure how the landscape would look if I hadn't opted in for
> that, but maybe it would account for the difference.

Well, my driver is nouveau because Nvidia thinks my Nvidia card is too old (GeForce 8400 GS), so the driver comes with the default installation. On 14.04 I installed the nvidia driver with synaptic, on 20.04 I had to go to the nvidia site and download the kernel driver because there was no appropriate package available in the Ubuntu repos.


Nils