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

[neal at mnopltd.com]

I shall research that right after lunch.   Don't need fancy.   Just not 
crazy.


On 2021-02-06 10:49, Boris Borisov wrote:
> Odd. At least VESA modes should work. Maybe try with some grub
> parameters to disable nouveau driver or enforce VESA.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2021, 11:44 <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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] [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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