I can't be sure that buying a new GPU will solve the problem so that is at your own risk and expense... But such a new(er) GPU does support Nvidia's latest drivers. In fact I've been using a GT 1030 in recent months for my own Nvidia-related work in Ubuntu 20.10. And that card is roughly 7x more powerful than your current one. But I can't predict the future and can't guarantee you won't face new problems or the same problems.
I've just logged on again (it's Friday night here) to see what recent Ubuntu updates might have caused this issue... It can't be nvidia- graphics-drivers-340 because that's never changed. So perhaps it was a kernel update or xorg-server update. To test this properly, without buying anything, I suggest reinstalling Ubuntu with networking *disabled*, but the 3rd part components option *enabled*. That will give you a fresh Ubuntu system without any updates installed, and hopefully with nvidia-340 installed right from the beginning (it's included in the Ubuntu installer). If that works then we can figure out more easily what software updates (if any) have caused the problem. -- 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
