On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 at 07:16, Mike Squires <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've just upgraded my primary system from dual boot 22.04 and Windows 10 > x64 Pro to 24.04. > > The system is now running quite smoothly; thank you! > > The move was triggered by the inability of the current version of 22.04 > to support my nVida M5000 video card. The Linux version installed by > 24.04 is now a step above that provided with 22.04 after an upgrade, and > this makes the proprietary nVida driver (550) fail to install when > upgrading 22.04 or installing 2204. fresh.
550? I think that's now been replaced by 570. > The system uses a 2 TB RAID 1 array (Seagate Constellation, 3ware 9750 > controller) created as an MBR drive. 2 TB is the largest size MBR drive > for Windows 10 This is not correct; a more accurate statement is "2TB is the maximum drive size for MBR". What OS makes no difference. > The PC is an old Dell T7600, dual Xeon , 32 GB RAM, which is quite fast > after OS startup. The UEFI implementation seems to be broken What firmware version are your machines running? Have you updated it? Latest seems to be version A17. https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=40d08&oscode=w764&productcode=precision-t7600 -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: [email protected] Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
