[11:43] <Paddy_NI> Hi I am setting up a pc for a client/friend of mine and I am having tremendous difficulties figuring out how to get a resolution of 1920x1080 out of a GTX 1050 ti using the proprietary drivers.  So far I used the default driver upon inserting the card (nouveu) and it gave 1920x1080.  The 390 driver and the lower numbered one, both of which gave terrible low resolutions (1600x900 being the highest, although gets cut 
[11:43] <Paddy_NI> off at the edges of the display). xrandr fails to addmode (supposedly due to a restriction in the proprietary driver) and the 396 and 410 drivers both give the same low resolutions.
[11:44] <Paddy_NI> Reverting back to the Nouveu driver is also a failure in that it has reportedly reverted back however I now only have a single tiny resolution (800x600 I think or perhaps lower)
[11:45] <Paddy_NI> I have removed the xorg.conf a number of time in order to make sure it is not being influenced by previous driver configurations, still not working as expected
[11:45] <Paddy_NI> adding a modeline entry to xorg.conf broke X too
[11:45] <Paddy_NI> Running Ubuntu MATE 18.04
[12:57] <Paddy_NI> Is there anyone here?
[12:59] <tjaalton> you need to purge the nvidia driver in order to use nouveau again
[13:10] <Paddy_NI> tjaalton: I have done, it's using Nouveau now although it does not have it's original list of resolutions namely 1920x1080
[13:10] <Paddy_NI> It's actually running at 640x480
[13:11] <tjaalton> lsmod |grep nouveau
[13:12] <Paddy_NI> tjaalton: No results :-(
[13:12] <tjaalton> so you have it blacklisted still, meaning you didn't remove nvidia hard enough
[13:12] <Paddy_NI> Oh?
[13:13] <Paddy_NI> I did sudo apt purge nvidia-driver* and sudo apt autoremove. I also removed the contents of the blacklist file, well the entries relating to nouveau
[13:14] <tjaalton> and rebooted?
[13:14] <tjaalton> dunno then
[13:14] <Paddy_NI> Should I delete this file entirely "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf"
[13:14] <tjaalton> most likely
[13:14] <Paddy_NI> Okay
[13:15] <tjaalton> also need to run 'update-initramfs -k all -u
[13:15] <tjaalton> '
[13:15] <Paddy_NI> I did "update-initramfs -u"
[13:15] <Paddy_NI> no the -k all -u
[13:16] <tjaalton> should do
[13:16] <Paddy_NI> I am doing your one now too
[13:17] <tjaalton> it just updates it for all kernels
[13:17] <Paddy_NI> Ah I see
[13:17] <tjaalton> not the one you're running
[13:17] <tjaalton> not just
[13:17] <Paddy_NI> Okay so now I'll reboot
[13:18] <Paddy_NI> hmm.. still 640x480
[13:19] <Paddy_NI> And no results for lsmod | grep nouveau
[13:19] <Paddy_NI> I am completely baffled 
[13:20] <tjaalton> did you install the kernel manually+
[13:20] <tjaalton> ?
[13:20] <tjaalton> or is it from the disto
[13:20] <tjaalton> distro
[13:21] <Paddy_NI> tjaalton: From the distro
[13:22] <Paddy_NI> Ubuntu MATE 18.04
[13:22] <Paddy_NI> I did in my desperation add the graphics drivers ppa
[13:22] <Paddy_NI> Would that have caused any trouble?
[13:22] <tjaalton> maybe
[13:22] <Paddy_NI> oh
[13:22] <Paddy_NI> :-(
[13:23] <tjaalton> dmesg|grep nvidia
[13:23] <tjaalton> or, grep nomodeset /proc/cmdline
[13:23] <Paddy_NI> No results
[13:24] <Paddy_NI> No results for that either
[13:24] <tjaalton> check dmesg
[13:24] <tjaalton> search for nouveau or drm
[13:26] <Paddy_NI> Do I just run "dmesg | grep -i nouveau" or "dmesg | grep -i drm"?
[13:26] <Paddy_NI> No results for nouveau
[13:26] <Paddy_NI> $ dmesg | grep -i drm
[13:26] <Paddy_NI> [    2.152418] ata1.00: supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible
[13:26] <Paddy_NI> [    2.155624] ata1.00: supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible
[13:26] <tjaalton> ok
[13:30] <Paddy_NI> I am just going to make a cup of tea, might calm my nerves :-)
[13:30] <Paddy_NI> tjaalton: I do appreciate your help very much by the way. Thank you
[13:31] <Paddy_NI> I honestly have no idea what to do
[13:31] <tjaalton> sounds like nouveau is still blacklisted
[13:31] <tjaalton> try loading it manually
[13:31] <tjaalton> modprobe nouveau
[13:31] <Paddy_NI> Will try that right now
[13:32] <Paddy_NI> $ sudo modprobe nouveau
[13:32] <Paddy_NI> [sudo] password for caoimhin: 
[13:32] <Paddy_NI> modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:832 kmod_module_insert_module() could not find module by name='off'
[13:32] <Paddy_NI> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'off': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
[13:33] <tjaalton> huh
[13:33] <tjaalton> dmesg|tail
[13:34] <Paddy_NI> https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/D5Kwh6Z2Y7/
[13:35] <tjaalton> ok, wonder if that means it's blacklisted
[13:35] <tjaalton> grep -r nouveau /etc/modprobe.d/
[13:35] <Paddy_NI> /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf:blacklist nouveau
[13:35] <Paddy_NI> /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf:blacklist lbm-nouveau
[13:35] <Paddy_NI> /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf:alias nouveau off
[13:35] <Paddy_NI> /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf:alias lbm-nouveau off
[13:36] <tjaalton> heh
[13:37] <Paddy_NI> Okay so I deleted those entries
[13:37] <tjaalton> just ppa-purge the ppa
[13:37] <Paddy_NI> Should I update initramfs again?
[13:37] <Paddy_NI> ah okay
[13:39] <Paddy_NI> Okay I removed those entries from the blacklist file, purged the ppa and performed and update on initramfs. Should I also delete that "/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf" file?
[13:39] <Paddy_NI> I thought I had previously deleted it
[13:40] <Paddy_NI> Perhaps it was a different file or it was recreated by something installed via that ppa
[13:40] <Paddy_NI> Okay so reboot
[13:41] <Paddy_NI> I probably should have checked to see if there was a "xorg.conf" needing deleted
[13:41] <Paddy_NI> Oh it's looking like it's 1080p now!
[13:42] <Paddy_NI> tjaalton: It's 1080p now :-)
[13:42] <tjaalton> cool
[13:43] <Paddy_NI> I wonder how on earth I am going to get the proprietary driver installed and running at 1080p
[13:43] <Paddy_NI> My client/mate will be using this for gaming
[13:44] <Paddy_NI> tjaalton: By the way thank you for your patience
[13:44] <tjaalton> np
[13:49] <Paddy_NI> I am just going to run "sudo apt install nvidia-driver-390" to see what I get this time.  Perhaps the same but, fingers crossed
[13:54] <Paddy_NI> Okay so I installed "nvidia-driver-390" and reboot.  It seems to have installed successfully however I believe it's still using the Nouveau driver
[13:55] <tjaalton> you probably have no blacklist
[13:56] <tjaalton> I think some package was left in a conf-installed state and you removed the configs by hand, so it's not going to replace them
[13:58] <Paddy_NI> Oh, does this mean I am screwed?
[13:59] <Paddy_NI> Sorry I really need to grab a drink of tea
[13:59] <Paddy_NI> be straight back
[14:00] <tjaalton> someone who knows the nvidia driver better might be able to help with that..
[14:08] <Paddy_NI> Okay thank you tjaalton, I wonder if there is ever a good time to be on this channel for help.  It seems awfully quiet.
[14:09] <tjaalton> it usually is, until there's a new nvidia version out..
[14:09] <Paddy_NI> Ah I see
[14:09] <Paddy_NI> Makes sense
[16:11] <mamarley> Speaking of new NVIDIA releases being out… https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/138959/en-us :)
[16:25] <tjaalton> so it's out of beta now?
[16:25] <mamarley> Apparently. :)
[17:52] <soee> 410.66 driver released ;)