Kernels galore and no NVIDIA driver in sight

[Keith]

On 12/21/24 12:14 PM, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,

[snipped]

> 
>> $ sudo apt -s purge ~c
> 
> Ouch. That gave output of 363 lines that I've attached to this
> message as a text file.

Oof, that's a bit unexpected unless you've never run autoremove with the 
"--purge" option before.
> 
>> You can also run the following command but I would check apt's sim
>> output first to make sure nothing is removed unintentionally.
>>
>> $ sudo apt -s autopurge
> 
> I'll wait to do that until I've heard back from you on whether the
> attached output looks good to remove or not.
> 

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>> $ lsmod |grep -i nvidia
> 
> The output from that one is:
> 
> nvidia_uvm           1511424  0
> nvidia_drm             77824  4
> nvidia_modeset       1306624  14 nvidia_drm
> nvidia              56741888  913 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
> drm_kms_helper        311296  1 nvidia_drm
> drm                   622592  8 drm_kms_helper,nvidia,nvidia_drm
> 
>> $ modinfo nvidia
> 
> Some of the output from that one seems like it would be better not to
> share in public. I'm assuming this is the part you'd be interested in:

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That's fine. I just wanted to confirm the nvidia module was the 535 
version loaded with the 5.15.0-130-generic kernel. So the your graphic 
driver is good with the current kernel.

> 
> Thank you for all of this help and information. Would there be any
> harm in my doing the sudo apt autoremove command that I usually run
> after getting a new kernel to remove the oldest one? My goal is just
> not to make my NVIDIA card unhappy.
> 

I don't believe that you'll harm anything the way it looks now, but 
autoremove doesn't remove config files unless you add the "--purge" 
option (autopurge is just a shortcut for that), so you'll have a bunch 
entries with "rc" still left in your "dpkg -l" output.

After you run "apt autoremove (or autopurge)" I would still run
"apt purge ~c" afterwards to remove any residual config files.

-- 
Keith