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

[Dick Steffens]

On 1/25/20 2:30 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> 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.
>
> <...>
>
> After a reboot my old two screen setup returned. nvidia-settings shows 
> that I'm running 390.129. I am happy.

Looking at the current boot log with journalctl -b I find the following: 
(In the terminal, a number of lines are shown boldface. I've added that 
bolding below.)

> Jan 25 15:02:29 ENU-2 kernel: *nvidia: loading out-of-tree module 
> taints kernel.*
> Jan 25 15:02:29 ENU-2 kernel: *nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints 
> kernel.*
> Jan 25 15:02:29 ENU-2 kernel: *Disabling lock debugging due to kernel 
> taint*
> Jan 25 15:02:29 ENU-2 kernel: *nvidia: module verification failed: 
> signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel*
> Jan 25 15:02:29 ENU-2 kernel: nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being 
> initialized, major device number 238
> Jan 25 15:02:29 ENU-2 kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA 
> decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
> Jan 25 15:02:29 ENU-2 kernel: *NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel 
> Module  390.129  Mon Jul 22 21:10:21 PDT 2019 (using threaded interrupts)*
> Jan 25 15:02:29 ENU-2 kernel: nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel 
> Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  390.129  Tue Jul 23 00:29:03 
> PDT 2019
> Jan 25 15:02:29 ENU-2 kernel: [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] 
> Loading driver
> Jan 25 15:02:29 ENU-2 kernel: [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 
> 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
> Jan 25 15:02:29 ENU-2 kernel: nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver in 8 
> mode, major device number 237

Some of those seem to indicate something is still wrong, but so far the 
nVidia drive appears to be working.

Do I have more work to do?

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens