Latest NVidia driver f-d up my video

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 7:00 AM Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey there,
>
:
>
> 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.
>
I have no special process for updating. I usually just use the
Software Updater when it tells me there's an update available.

That's what I did this time, and blam - it failed. I have since run a
number of updates (none of which include the kernel or nvidia driver),
and those have worked just fine on my 6.5.0.45 kernel revision.

Occasionally I'll use a shell function I wrote:

update ()
{
    typeset SX=false;
    [[ "$1" == "-x" ]] && SX=true && shift && set -x;
    [[ "$1" =~ -[hH?] || "$1" == "--help" ]] && echo "update
[-hH?][-p]" && return 0;
    sudo /usr/bin/apt update;
    sudo /usr/bin/apt-file update;
    sudo /usr/bin/apt -y full-upgrade;
    [[ "$1" == "-p" ]] && read -p "Clean up (Y/n) ? " ln;
    [[ $ln =~ nN ]] && return 0;
    sudo /usr/bin/apt -y clean;
    sudo /usr/bin/apt -y autoremove;
    sudo /usr/bin/apt -y autoclean;
    [[ -f $HOME/var/mlocate.db ]] || return 0;
    [[ -x /usr/bin/updatedb ]] && echo "Running updatedb..." &&
/usr/bin/updatedb -l 0 -o $HOME/var/mlocate.db -U $HOME;
    $SX && set +x
}

I do not know for sure that the nvidia driver was involved at all, but
I also have not disabled it entirely - I don't want to f-up a good
working version on my main desktop computer. I should also note that
my laptop is running merrily away on the 6.8.0.40 kernel, but it has a
whole different hardware configuration - i7-1065G7 CPU, Intel video
integrated on the M/B - it's an LG-17Z90N.

HTH. TIA.

Mark