So it worked briefly after you did the uninstall? If I'm understanding you correctly, you removed nvidia, it fell back to nouveau and both monitors came up?
Then you installed nvidia, and it broke again? On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 6:10 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/23/20 5:21 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > <...> > > > > Holy shit, thats quite a list. I would make all the nvidia ones are > > uninstalled, and reboot to make sure things get cleared. A simple > reinstal > > might not be enough.Leave nouveau alone, it needs to stay there as your > > built-in fallback. > > > > Once you've removed all the nvidia pkgs and rebooted, you should be able > to > > get away with running > > $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-390 > > > > That should be a metapackage that pulls in everything else. Going off the > > meta package will make sure all the different post-inst scripts are > > executed. If this doesn't work, then you've pretty much ruled out the > > software stuff. > > I marked all of that list except xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-hwe-1. > Synaptic said there were 78 packages being removed. Once that was done I > restarted the machine. It came up with both monitors. They were in the > mode where they were mirrored, although the left part of the desktop was > off the screen on the smaller monitor. Not unexpected. It still has the > "System program problem detected" error message. I let it report the > problem. > > I ran sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-390. Once finished, I restarted > the machine again. It came up with the original problem, one screen > working at low resolution. > > Thanks for the help so far. > > Further ideas? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
