Latest NVidia driver f-d up my video

MR ZenWiz mrzenwiz at gmail.com
Sun Aug 18 00:08:46 UTC 2024


On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 3:00 PM Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>
:
> I am wondering whether, with all that has gone into this problem, so
> far, it would be more worthwhile to start again, with a new system
> installation, and, I am wondering, as this seems related to the
> particular kernel, unless that is the standard kernel for Ubuntu 24.04,
> whether it would not be advisable to, in performing a clean system
> installation, revert to using the standard kernel for the Ubuntu version.
>

I'm planning to upgrade to 24.04.1 LTS as soon as it is available.
Actually. I'm planning to install a new boot drive and do a fresh
install. Coming soon. I sure hope that works better than this
"update."

> As the 6.x kernel seems to be involved in the problem, this is
> appearing, to me, to look increasingly like a Ubuntu implementation of
> Debian Sid, or Debian Experimental.
>
I upgraded to the 6.5 kernel as soon as Ubuntu made it available as a
straight update. This is the first time I recall having had anywhere
near this kind of trouble.

> But, then, my level of knowledge at that level, is not overly high.
>
> With my nVidia drivers (different ones on different computers), I
> install the drivers upgrades, before I install the kernel upgrades - I
> install most packages upgrades, using the Software Updater, until I need
> to do a system reboot, involving shutting everything down, first, then,
> after I have shut everything down, I run the commands
> sudo -i
> apt update
> apt full-upgrade
> apt autoremove -y
> apt autoclean
> shutdown -r now
>
> to deal with kernel updates, and, it seems to work for me, for dealing
> with kernel updates and other packages updates.
>

I'll keep that in mind (and this email in my stores :-).

Thanks, Bret.

Mark



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