I would be curious to see what a fresh install looks like. Because when you first started reporting these bugs you had disabled the open source driver in the kernel, didn't have the proprietary driver installed, and had installed a custom unsupported kernel. So I am still skeptical that some of those changes, or other changes, may have broken the system.
Sorry it's so complicated... Nvidia retires their "old" hardware very quickly. Even when many of us would not consider it "old". Yours is in the process of being retired as it's only "supported" via an old driver. And that old driver is too old for newer kernels. It would be easy to blame Nvidia but you have to remember that these problems don't happen on Windows. So I would also blame the design of the Linux kernel for not providing a stable ABI (one that doesn't require rebuilding drivers). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1889541 Title: Booting Ubuntu with Nvidia-340 gets stuck on a plain purple screen Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When I install the proprietary NVidia drivers, even if I set: - nosplash noveau.modeset=0 in grub - WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf My system keeps staying on the purple screen before asking for login. The System is accessible and working via SSH. After a thread in bug 1889377, @vanvugt suggested to me the following procedure: [QUOTE] We would need to see the system log from one of those failed boots. To do that please: 1. Reproduce a failed boot with nvidia-340. 2. Uninstall nvidia-340 and after rebooting collect the log from the previous failed boot. For example, to collect the last three boots run: journalctl -b-1 > prevboot-1.txt journalctl -b-2 > prevboot-2.txt journalctl -b-3 > prevboot-3.txt and then please open a new bug with those logs attached. [/QUOTE] Attached the three files. Aditional info: 1) Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS 2) nvidia-340 3) system boots 4) system is not booting Thanks for helping. Mirko To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-340/+bug/1889541/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
