Buy a cheap Radeon card.  This fight is not worth having.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 3:15 PM Adrian Nida <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,  Upgraded an old desktop from 19.10 to 20.04 and hit this graphics
> display issue.  I also have the same graphics card:
>
> >From lspci:
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)
>
> Is there any workaround I can perform to make this desktop usable? Other
> than blowing away the install and going back to 19.10?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1875712
>
> Title:
>   Unusable graphics, nouveau + G73 (GEForce 7600)
>
> Status in mesa package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
> Status in mutter package in Ubuntu:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   This is an older card, but it worked well on ubuntu 12.x :)
>
>   Booting "Try Ubuntu" on 20.04 get the correct resolution and 2
>   displays, but the video glitches and shows all sorts of noise.  It is
>   largely unusable (which makes filing this bug very hard).
>
>   Safe Graphics works in low-res.
>
>   The nvidia proprietary driver seems to not support this device any
>   more.  I like this card because it has no fan (and I don't do a lot of
>   graphics-intense stuff).
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
>   Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30
>   Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64
>   NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
>   CasperVersion: 1.445
>   CompositorRunning: None
>   CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
>   Date: Tue Apr 28 18:13:48 2020
>   DistUpgraded: Fresh install
>   DistroCodename: focal
>   DistroVariant: ubuntu
>   ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
>   GraphicsCard:
>    NVIDIA Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] [10de:0391] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>      Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] [1458:3417]
>   LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
>   MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>   ProcEnviron:
>    TERM=xterm-256color
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
>    LANG=C.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   ProcKernelCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/username.seed initrd=/casper/initrd  ---  priority=low
>   SourcePackage: xorg
>   Symptom: display
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   dmi.bios.date: 12/30/2010
>   dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
>   dmi.bios.version: P1.40
>   dmi.board.name: X58 Extreme6
>   dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
>   dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>   dmi.chassis.type: 3
>   dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>   dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>   dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.40:bd12/30/2010:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnX58Extreme6:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
>   dmi.product.family: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>   dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>   dmi.product.sku: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>   dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>   dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
>   version.compiz: compiz N/A
>   version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.101-2
>   version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 20.0.4-2ubuntu1
>   version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
>   version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2
>   version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
>   version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1
>   version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20200226-1
>   version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1
>
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