Latest NVidia driver f-d up my video

[MR ZenWiz]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 1:46 PM Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>
:
> You are far more knowledgeable than me, but, I am wondering whether you run
> sudo apt autoremove
> and then
> sudo apt autoclean
> when you do kernel upgrades, and, whether running those two commands,
> would eliminate your deinstall lines?
>

Latest update:

Still no GUI.

I stripped out most of the nvidia drivers, leaving this:

$ dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia
linux-modules-nvidia-470-6.5.0-45-generic install
linux-modules-nvidia-470-6.8.0-40-generic install
linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic-hwe-22.04 install
linux-objects-nvidia-470-6.5.0-45-generic install
linux-objects-nvidia-470-6.8.0-40-generic install
linux-signatures-nvidia-6.5.0-45-generic install
linux-signatures-nvidia-6.8.0-40-generic install
nvidia-kernel-common-470 install

I also added nouveau to /etc/modules. I even ran update-initramfs -u
from the root recovery command line.

No luck. It still halts with an error on ata7.0 - which is my /dev/sr1
(I think that's my Blue-Ray writer drive).

I can't disconnect the optical drives easily - they're in the case,
but I contend I shouldn't have to just to get a system to boot.

A photo of the screen where it hangs is here: https://bit.ly/BootHang

Any suggestions?

TIA.

Mark