nVidia-340 driver install failed, black screen upon boot and hanging

[Andrew Cheng]

Hello all,
I was trying to install nVidia driver 340 onto Kbuntu 19.04 (also tried Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux mint 19.04)
;
 ALL installs failed. Cannot boot and/or upon booting (Linux Mint 19.04), it will hanged hard.

I am a newbie in Linux, please offer help.
I am using a HP G60 (old laptop) w/ a Nvidia GF8200M G graphics chip.

Also tried download the specific driver from nVidia's web site, file: 340.1070 and 340.1060; and installed them, ALL not working and system hung. Using the X-org driver is fine, but no 3D acceleration.

Any idea?? Please help.

Andrew Cheng - x Windows system engineer.

[Andrew Cheng (chenga8899)]

Was hoping the kernel 5.0.x be a lot better for these kind of support, but now highly disappointed.

[lotuspsychje (lotuspsychje)]

ubuntu-drivers list to see your availaible drivers list, try the 390 perhaps
or the ubuntu graphics drivers ppa

[andrew cheng (chenga88)]

Hi.
"try the 390 perhaps
or the ubuntu graphics drivers pp". Is this a guess??? Or you knew this is
a fix??? Sorry, I think I was spending/wasting enough time trying to TS
this issue. In some way, I think the Windows system works better, as far
as legacy driver support goes. Or, should I wait for a newer kernel
release and hope they'll get this fixed?

Please advise. Thanks.

--Andrew.

On Wed, 1 May 2019, 23:25 lotuspsychje, <email address hidden> wrote:

> ubuntu-drivers list to see your availaible drivers list, try the 390
> perhaps
> or the ubuntu graphics drivers ppa
>
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> Title:
> nVidia-340 driver install failed, black screen upon boot and hanging
>
> Status in nvidia-settings package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Hello all,
> I was trying to install nVidia driver 340 onto Kbuntu 19.04 (also tried
> Ubuntu 18.04 and Linux mint 19.04)
> ;
> ALL installs failed. Cannot boot and/or upon booting (Linux Mint
> 19.04), it will hanged hard.
>
>
> I am a newbie in Linux, please offer help.
> I am using a HP G60 (old laptop) w/ a Nvidia GF8200M G graphics chip.
>
> Also tried download the specific driver from nVidia's web site, file:
> 340.1070 and 340.1060; and installed them, ALL not working and system
> hung. Using the X-org driver is fine, but no 3D acceleration.
>
> Any idea?? Please help.
>
>
> Andrew Cheng - x Windows system engineer.
>
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This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1827228