[PLUG] Resolved: Xbuntu starts up in a low resolution mode

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Sat Jan 25 22:30:38 UTC 2020


On 1/23/20 8:40 PM, tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com wrote:
> I am not discrete graphics card expert - the last time I was helping a friend
> with similar Nvidia card problem - I did not know what to do, so I booted from
> live Ubuntu/Knoppix - one of them worked great - so, I checked the
> installed/used driver and replicated it in his setup.

I booted from the install USB stick. It came up in nouveau, so looking 
for nvidia in installed/used driver only showed me the nouveau info.

Since reinstalling VirtualBox worked I decided to reinstall the nVidia 
driver. I looked at:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1054954/how-to-install-nvidia-driver-in-ubuntu-18-04

for instructions and followed them.

I started with

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

Then

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers

sudo apt-get update

and then

sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-390

After a reboot my old two scree setup returned. nvidia-settings shows 
that I'm running 390.129. I am happy.

Now to copy the current stuff I did this week on ENU-1 over to ENU-2, 
and then switch the boxes again.

Thanks to all for your support.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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