[ale] bizarre ubuntu video on Dell optiplex 740 (dropbox images)

[neal at mnopltd.com]

There is a chip on the MOBO.   "Integrated nVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 210S" is 
what the spec sheet says.

S706B084   0725A3  TAIWAN  GT6129.1   NF-430-N-A3 is what the chip says.

I have now progressed to where I have no login screen of any flavor, 
including text mode, and the only way in is via Ssh.



On 2021-02-06 09:45, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
> What model Nvidia is in there.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2021, 10:17 DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/6/21 10:02 AM, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
>>> sudo ubuntu-drivers
>> 
>> 20.04 has a few notes in the Release Notes about nvidia GPUs.
>> Be certain to read it.
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes
>> 
>> $ sudo apt purge nvidia-*
>> $ sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
>> 
>> are the commands you want. Since 18.04, AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers
>> have been available for still supported GPUs.
>> 
>> The ubuntuforums.org [1] have lots of people who struggle with
>> dual-GPU
>> systems, especially when those systems have both nvidia and Intel
>> iGPUs. Anyways, check there for more help.
>> 
>> I don't have a system like that and my only 20.04 system runs
>> inside a VM.  Last month, I moved from 16.04 to 18.04 on most of my
>> systems. ;) I don't really "do" GUI stuff - still rocking fvwm here.
>> ;)
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