Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1797791
Title:
nvidia-340 installation issues need to be resolved and the package
marked as 'tested'
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 is essential to many users. For
example, on my MacPro 3,1 equipped with an EVGA GTX-680 Mac version
graphic card, the nvidia 360, 390 and 396 drivers all fail due to
issues with the new nvidia_drm module resulting in no video output on
DVI and HDMI.
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1042691/linux/black-screen-
with-mac-version-of-gtx-680/1
Similiar issues exist for a number of PC users as well...
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1037997/xid-61-black-screen-
on-startup-ubuntu-18-04-gtx-1060-mobile/
of which only some have been resolved. The nvidia-340 drivers are the
recommended fall back according to the Nvidia linux developers.
Unfortunately, the installation of the current nvidia-340
340.107-0ubuntu2 packaging is in really bad shape. The first error one
sees while attempting to install it are dpkg-divert errors like those
described in https://askubuntu.com/questions/419304/dpkg-divert-error-
rename-involves-overwriting-usr-lib-xorg-protocol-txt-wit but for the
files...
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libEGL.so.1.distrib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv1_CM.so.1.distrib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGLESv2.so.2.distrib.
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib
Currently one has to manually move these aside under a .bak suffix to
get past these post-removal script errors. I believe these issues may
be already addressed in the current nvidia-340 packaging residing on
the ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa repo.
The second installation issue that occurs is the same as that
described in https://askubuntu.com/questions/969352/uninstalling-and-
then-reinstalling-nvidia-384-kills-colord where currently the fix is
the same. One has to edit the installed nvidia-340.postinst file and
change
NEWEST_KERNEL=$(get_newest_kernel "$(KERNEL")
to
NEWEST_KERNEL=$(get_newest_kernel "$CURRENT_KERNEL")
following executing
sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-340
to allow the installation to cleanly complete. Lastly, there seems to
be a missing dependency on the nvidia-340-dev that prevents akmods
from building the kernel modules which should be fixed.
The nvidia-340 drivers are supported until the end of 2019 by which
time hopefully Nvidia will finally clean up their current issues with
the newer drivers on problematic hardware.
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: nvidia-340 340.107-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-10.11-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 14 12:41:21 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-26 (170 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
(20180425.1)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-340
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-09-30 (14 days ago)
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