On 10/19/20 12:01 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:25:17 -0700
Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo:
Since JJJ mentioned Ubuntu recently coming out with updated nVidia
drivers, I'll try that next.
In my case the old driver was '440' and the new one was '450.' I
knew which model nVidia chip I had, but I couldn't find anything from
Ubuntu telling me which chip needed which driver. So I went to nVidia's
website and found their driver for my chip, and noted its name. Then I
went back to Synaptic and discovered that Debian/Ubuntu packages the
nVidia drivers, but renames them in the process. (Why??) Fortunately the
numbers still matched.
There are various packages for each driver. I ended up with
nvidia-compute-utils-450
nvidia-dkms-450
nvidia-driver-450
nvidia-kernel-common-450
nvidia-kernel-source-450
nvidia-utils-450
--plus a few more 'nvidia' packages without the number
I think I just marked the driver package and Synaptic auto-marked the
others for me. It was a scary process, but it worked. :)
My nVidia card is a GT218 [GeForce 210]. The driver is 340. Using
Synaptic I checked upgrade on everything selected in the nvidia search.
The first time I tried it was running Synaptic from the terminal after
sudo su -. I got an error message saying that apt wasn't allowed to do
something or other. So then I ran Synaptic from the System menu and did
all the same stuff again. Synaptic closed without error or warning. I
rebooted and tried nvidia-settings again and got this:
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rsteff@ENU-1:~/Desktop$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for rsteff:
root@ENU-1:~# nvidia-settings
(nvidia-settings:1412): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:48:17.748:
g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
ERROR: App profile parse error in
/usr/share/nvidia/nvidia-application-profiles-340.108-key-documentation:
'[' or '{' expected near end of file on <string>, line 1
** (nvidia-settings:1412): WARNING **: 12:48:18.351: PRIME: Failed to
execute child process “/usr/bin/prime-supported” (No such file or
directory)
** Message: 12:48:18.351: PRIME: is it supported? no
Package xorg-server was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xorg-server.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'xorg-server' found
root@ENU-1:~#
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So things improved, but still don't work right. The check box on the VGA
monitor for "Make this the primary display for the X screen" is checked,
but the bar at the top of the screen is not on the VGA monitor.
Further ideas?
Also, what is PRIME, and should it be supported on this machine? And
what about the xorg-server stuff? The machine seems to work fine for
most of what I use it for, but I'd really like to be able to see the bar
at the top.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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