I am not discrete graphics card expert - the last time I was helping a friend with similar Nvidia card problem - I did not know what to do, so I booted from live Ubuntu/Knoppix - one of them worked great - so, I checked the installed/used driver and replicated it in his setup.
If you chose to try that, and if that works - you should be able to figure out the driver using lsmod and dmesg - and check installed packages and repositories in aptitude. That is my poor man's way of skinning this cat. If I could get my dream come through graphics card - it would be $50 or less Aspeed openBMC accessible over NIC. Tomas On Thu, 2020-01-23 at 19:49 -0800, Ben Koenig wrote: > 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 <d...@dicksteffens.com> 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 > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
