Comment 34 for bug 1860483
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| Paul Collinsworth (collinsworth) wrote Re: [Bug 1860483] Re: [nouveau, GeForce 7300 LE] screen background overlaid with scan type artifact in red | #34 |
Perhaps I should just get a new GPU card. Or a new system.
In the meantime, at boot this morning, the first thing I tried to do
after log-in was to access "Settings"; no response. After a few minutes
of 'nothing happening', I clicked the e-mail ("Thunderbird") icon; no
response there, as well. Went to the shutdown/restart panel (the
pull-down at the upper right), clicked "Restart", the system reported
that there was no response from "Thunderbird", switched to an
unpopulated version (no desktop icons or tool bars) of my screen
background image (with none of the corrupting artifact) and stalled.
Pushed the "big red reset" button (power), let it sit for a minute or
two, booted, and after log-in, went straight to e-mail, which behaved
more-or-less normally, accessed the 'net (no particular loss of browser
functionality), and here I am.
Nvidia 304 is a familiar number. I had to re-install that thing several
years ago; seems to me that it was pre-16.04, in fact. Took more than
one iteration of the install process to get it functioning properly;
recollection is that there was some issue with the digital video output.
I did have to switch to the VGA output on the board a couple of years
ago. Something finally got permanently hosed on the digital interface
side, and that may be the root cause now - some sort of problem in the
VGA interface.
On 1/24/20 12:46 AM, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
> Just checked the Nvidia web site and they recommend proprietary driver
> version 304 for your GPU (which also implies versions after 304 won't
> support it). It appears the reason why Software & Updates told you "No
> Additional Drivers Available" is because that's also older than any
> Nvidia shipped with Ubuntu 18.04.
>
> As a next step I would recommend you get the driver that Nvidia
> themselves recommend and manually install that:
> https:/
>
> Annoyingly, Ubuntu 16.04 does offer Nvidia driver version 304 but that
> Ubuntu release is older and did not ship with a version of Gnome Shell
> that we support.
>