[PLUG] Help! Display at 640x480!

Ben Koenig techkoenig at gmail.com
Wed Mar 20 03:29:34 UTC 2019


That is what happened. There are install scripts in place to do the 
recompile, but for a plethora of reasons those scripts can fail.

When you look at the actual problem, climate change really is a viable 
explanation :-)


On 3/19/19 1:15 PM, Matt McKenzie wrote:
> [snip]
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:53 AM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> The NVIDIA display settings utility, however, now displays everything,
>> and there are options to change resolutions, etc. This is as it used to
>> be before the disaster. In retrospect, the reason it showed nothing
>> during the disaster was undoubtedly because there was no driver at that
>> time.
>>
>> The part that still leaves me shaking my head is how this happened.
>> Before leaving for the Clinic I applied all the latest Xubuntu updates
>> (using Update Manager), which included a new kernel.
>
> ^^^^^ This part right here, is probably the most likely answer.
>
> When using NVIDIA driver (not nouveau), the driver modules need to be
> recompiled whenever the kernel is changed or updated.
>
> I haven't used NVIDIA driver in a while but I used to, and I had to do this
> dance every time I updated kernel, or upgraded the whole OS.
>
> Since you are using a packaged version and not the tarball from NVIDIA,
> most likely you can just rerun the installer for the package, which will
> (probably?) recompile the modules for the kernel drivers.
> Failing that just uninstall and reinstall the package.
>
>
> Matt M.
> LinuxKnight
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