Comment 8 for bug 1871303

Thanks,

I tried the nvidia driver 435. seems that Umbuntu rejects and and reverted
to the nouveau
 driver. But the resolution is very low and the rendering quality is bad.
In the ubuntu settings/displays/resolution it does not give me a high
resolution option.

My eyes are just about burned out getting this far, the rendering is bad,
like a really bad focus, blurry.

Ken

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 9:06 AM Daniel van Vugt <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> It looks like a bug in an old driver, possibly relating only to old
> video cards. So a fix is unlikely to arrive in that particular driver
> version.
>
> You might want to try uninstalling the Nvidia driver version 390 and
> then either:
>
> * Do nothing -- the built-in open source driver should work; or
>
> * sudo apt install nvidia-driver-435
>
> --
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1871303
>
> Title:
> [nvidia] Xorg crashes in (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate software
> rendering cache surface: out of memory
>
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Boot hangs up on initiating graphics. I can only finish the boot if I
> use the recovery mode.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-91.92-generic 4.15.18
> Uname: Linux 4.15.0-91-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
> .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.01.00.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory:
> '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0'
> .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
> .proc.driver.nvidia.version:
> NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 390.116 Sun Jan 27
> 07:21:36 PST 2019
> GCC version: gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)
> .tmp.unity_support_test.0:
>
> ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14
> Architecture: amd64
> CompizPlugins: No value set for
> `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
> CompositorRunning: None
> Date: Tue Apr 7 09:02:40 2020
> DistUpgraded: Fresh install
> DistroCodename: bionic
> DistroVariant: ubuntu
> DkmsStatus:
> nvidia, 390.116, 4.15.0-88-generic, x86_64: installed
> nvidia, 390.116, 4.15.0-91-generic, x86_64: installed
> ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
> GraphicsCard:
> NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] [10de:128b] (rev a1)
> (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GK208B [GeForce GT 710] [1043:8572]
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-14 (997 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
> (20170215.2)
> MachineType: ASUS All Series
> ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-91-generic
> root=UUID=671dec46-62d2-4163-a941-c528578feb4d ro recovery nomodeset
> SourcePackage: xorg
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
> dmi.bios.date: 05/14/2015
> dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
> dmi.bios.version: 1103
> dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
> dmi.board.name: H81M-K
> dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
> dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
> dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
> dmi.chassis.type: 3
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
> dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1103:bd05/14/2015:svnASUS:pnAllSeries:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnH81M-K:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
> dmi.product.family: ASUS MB
> dmi.product.name: All Series
> dmi.product.version: System Version
> dmi.sys.vendor: ASUS
> version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-0ubuntu1
> version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.99-1ubuntu1~18.04.2
> version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 19.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.3
> version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 19.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.3
> version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A
> version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.3
> version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
> 1:2.10.5-1ubuntu1
> version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
> version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
> version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2
> xserver.bootTime: Tue Apr 7 07:18:59 2020
> xserver.configfile: default
> xserver.devices:
> input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6
> input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 7
> input SIGMACHIP Usb Mouse MOUSE, id 8
> input Eee PC WMI hotkeys KEYBOARD, id 9
> input AT Translated Set 2 keyboard KEYBOARD, id 10
> xserver.errors: open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
> xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> xserver.outputs:
>
> xserver.version: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.3
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