440 ought to work with that card, if I'm reading this right:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/159360/en-us
- Dan
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 4:30 PM Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 20:53, Jack Howarth
> wrote:
> >
> > I am finding on a 2008 MacPro with GTX680 that the installation of
> the nvidia-340 package under Ubuntu 20.04 prevents single user mode boots
> from working. While the nvidia-340 driver works fine from a normal boot,
> when 'single' is added before 'quiet' in the grub kernel arguments, the
> boot produces a black screen that never returns the expected single user
> mode prompts.
> > A parallel test with current Ubuntu 18.04 with either the stock
> nvidia-340 340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4 package or the
> nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 340.108-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 show both of them can
> successfully boot into single user mode.
> > Jack
>
> nvidia-340 is a very old version of nvidia.
>
> 20.04 LTS has: nvidia-driver-390, nvidia-driver-435, nvidia-driver-440.
>
> Can you please use Super to search and launch "additional drivers"
> select 440 driver and install and try that one? It is the recommended
> version of nvidia on 20.04 LTS. Or whichever is highest and supports
> your nvidia card.
>
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> Regards,
>
> Dimitri.
>
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