Latest NVidia driver f-d up my video

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Nils Kassube via ubuntu-users wrote:

>I'm using Kubuntu as well but 24.04 so I think it doesn't depend on
>the desktop. OTOH, maybe it is the GUI package manager. As I
>understand it, the GUT package managers we use (I think you use muon
>while I prefer synaptic) are only a frontend for dkpg which is the
>same for all desktops.

I think all of us use Discover to manage our packages. I use Muon to
do my "shopping" in the Ubuntu repositories.

>I have two older Kubuntu systems accessible on this machine and with
>the command "dpkg --get-selections --root=/PATH/TO/OLD/SYSTEM |grep
>deinstall" I get one entry for 14.04 and three entries for 20.04.

I did recently botch an update that contained a kernel and a video
driver by running the sudo apt autoremove command before obeying the
update's instructions to reboot the machine. It's possible that that
sloppily interfered with the cleanup that would normally accompany
the reboot, giving me way more entries than you.

>Well, my driver is nouveau because Nvidia thinks my Nvidia card is
>too old (GeForce 8400 GS), so the driver comes with the default
>installation. On 14.04 I installed the nvidia driver with synaptic,
>on 20.04 I had to go to the nvidia site and download the kernel
>driver because there was no appropriate package available in the
>Ubuntu repos.

Okay, so you manually installed your driver and I opted in to let
Ubuntu/NVIDIA manage mine. That could account for the differences
right there. I have no idea what, exactly, Ubuntu and/or NVIDIA do
as far as management is concerned.

We also have yet to find out how MR ZenWiz manages his driver since
that's probably important for figuring out how to fix what went
wrong. For instance, when I did the recent update botch, I was afraid
to try some of the suggestions I found online because they were
manual fixes and I wasn't sure if the changes they made would
interfere with Ubuntu's and NVIDIA's automatic intervention on my
behalf the next time there's an update. The same sort of concern may
apply to MR ZenWiz's circumstances.

-- 
Little Girl

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