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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">Below is a link to Dropbox images of attempted Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 GUI on a recent install on a Dell Optiplex 740. I tried attaching but the list server gagged on the size. </div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xn6n8d3xkuvj47j/AABCpduOm7matlU-TU733C7ia?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xn6n8d3xkuvj47j/AABCpduOm7matlU-TU733C7ia?dl=0</a></div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">Probably an understatement to note that installation was a LOT of fun; like living in an old Max Headroom episode.</div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">This Dell has an NVidia graphics chip that Dell failed to provide a driver for after Windows 7. (Add Dell to the list of vendors I now hate) Hence the upgrade to Windows 10 was whacky, and there were video issues there. But that's also why my wife let me have this for linux use.</div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">There is a BIOS setting for how much system RAM to allocate to video. I think I've tried various settings from 32mb to 128 and found that it appears to change the behavior slightly, but no flavor makes it readable. </div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">So, the only way I can use this is CTRL-F2 and login to text mode. Is there a "SAFE" video mode I could get this into to have the GUI work? Some least-common-denominator driver that just assumes basic VGA? And if so, how would I invoke that from text command mode?</div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">I tried this:</div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">111 sudo apt-get autoremove --purge nvidia-*<br />112 sudo service lightdm stop<br />113 sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau<br />114 sudo ubuntu-drivers devices<br />115 history<br />116 sync<br />117 sudo reboot</div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">and no joy.</div>
<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;"><br />118 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers<br />119 sudo apt-get update<br />120 man apt-get<br />121 sudo apt-get install nvidia-460</div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">and it didn't find the package.</div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">Plain old VGA mode GUI would be just fine at this point.</div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">regards,</div>
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<div class="v1pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace;">Neal</div>
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