[01:12] <Dr_Shulgin> hey guys
[01:12] <Dr_Shulgin> Could someone PM me and check if OTR works?
[01:47] <rossenburg> hi, anytime i install nvidia graphics drivers, after reboot the screen freezes and all i see is color splashed all over, after 3secs it will just go and nothing else will pop up, just black screen tho the monitor will be on....anyhelp or suggestions?
[01:53] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: A driver conflict? What shows ' dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia ' ?
[02:06] <rossenburg> sorry i got disconnected Bashing-om, can you resend your reply?
[02:07] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: "Bashing-om> rossenburg: A driver conflict? What shows ' dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia ' ?"
[02:08] <rossenburg> rossenburg@rossentech:~$ ' dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia '  dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia : command not found
[02:12] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: IF you can not boot to a terminaL:
[02:12] <Bashing-om> !nomodeset| rossenburg
[02:18] <rossenburg> okay, was using ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS..the issue is i was seeing screen flikering anytime i move the mouse pointer and some kind of blur text...but it doesnt come when i add nomodeset in the grub config...that was solved by then  found another solution that i was to create a file and name if xorg.config at /etc/X11/ ..and insert section "device" blah
[02:18] <rossenburg> blah ..that one too worked..but looks like that wasnt my problem..my problem is to be able to install a graphic driver in other to play a certain game so i switched to xubuntu and same things are happening
[02:19] <rossenburg> i remember i used to play this game on the same laptop and it was working fine..it wasnt warning me about graphics issue
[02:20] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: Let's see what we are working with; ' sudo lshw -C display '.
[02:21] <rossenburg>  *-display                        description: VGA compatible controller       product: G86M [GeForce 8400M GS]       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation       physical id: 0       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0       version: a1       width: 64 bits       clock: 33MHz       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
[02:21] <rossenburg> configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0       resources: irq:27 memory:ce000000-ceffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:cc000000-cdffffff ioport:2000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff
[02:22] <Bashing-om> !paste | rossenburg
[02:24] <rossenburg> https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/Jwhd23VWfB/
[02:29] <Bashing-om> !info nvidia-driver-340 bionic
[02:29] <Bashing-om> !info nvidia-340 bionic
[02:30] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: 340 version ^^ driver needed, that is in the repo, How have you attempted to install the driver ?
[02:32] <rossenburg> Additional drivers option alaways tells me to download nvidia-340, if i download it and install it...i will be asked to reboot, if i reboot it will just show Xunbuntu bootloader but in a very big text font than normal, then after it loads the screen will just be splashed with "colors", i dunno some sort of lines or something like a frozen system
[02:33] <rossenburg> after some secs it will just disappear and i will be seeing blank screen tho the monitor is on..but no logo page will appear, nothing
[02:33] <rossenburg> i intentionally left it for more than 3hrs and it was still the same :(
[02:35] <rossenburg> login*
[02:36] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: Humm ... let's see what the GPU mandager relates: pastebin ' cat /var/log/gpu-manager.log ' .
[02:37] <rossenburg> !pastebinit
[02:39] <rossenburg> https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/mqNgdN7GTc/
[02:53] <rossenburg> did i missed reply please? the system started flickering again so i had to restart
[02:56] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: No missed messages. I had expected that notebook to also have Intel graphics, How about we clean the system up and try once more to insyall a driver ?
[02:57] <rossenburg> sure! anything that will make things work, im in
[02:58] <rossenburg> right now the screen is flickering so im following https://askubuntu.com/questions/1062031/screen-flickering-in-ubuntu-18-04-1-lts
[02:58] <rossenburg> it works for me
[02:59] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: 1st up is ' dkms status ' . (dynamic kernel mode setting) . is it currently available ?
[03:00] <rossenburg> no, im being asked to download some files
[03:01] <rossenburg> should i proceed?
[03:03] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: NAw .. when we install the nvidia driver, dkms will be picked up (should) as a dependency. What have you for nvidia in the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d directory ?
[03:06] <rossenburg> 10-amdgpu.conf,10-quirks.conf, 10-radeon.conf, 40-libinput.conf, 51-synaptics-quirks.conf, 70-synaptics.conf,70-wacom.conf
[03:07] <rossenburg> theres no nvdia config file in there, the only files in there is what i just typed
[03:15] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: Good -now /etc/X11/xorg.conf ? Any nvidia files there?
[03:16] <rossenburg> theres no folder named xorg.conf
[03:19] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: Again good - no /etc/X11/xorg.conf.deither ?
[03:19] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: Again good - no /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d either ?
[03:19] <rossenburg> yes no xorg.conf.d too
[03:23] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: Hokay -let's see what happens // make sure secure boot is disabled in bios // run: ' sudo apt --purge nvidia* ; sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade ; sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall '. IF no errors reported, reboot to see the effect.
[03:41] <rossenburg> ok done with the downloading, Bashing-om, about to restart but incase the same prob pops up..can i run sudo apt-get purge nvidia-* ?
[03:42] <rossenburg> dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is emptydpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is emptymeans anything? in the installation of nvidia
[03:51] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: Well, can not be good.
[03:52] <Bashing-om> !info linux-generic-hwe-18.04 bionic
[03:53] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: Pastebin' dpkg -l | grep linux- ' .
[04:05] <rossenburg> Bashing-om, same problem ..i uninstalled nvidia, and its back to normal
[04:07] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: "bad syntax: revision number is emptydpkg:" Never been here befor but we need to find out why.
[04:08] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: What shows 'sudo apt -f install ; sudo dpkg -C ' ?
[04:09] <rossenburg> sudo apt -f install https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/8BRDpJ7jdG/
[04:10] <rossenburg> sudo dpkg -C give nothing, kind of command excuted
[04:12] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: Humm: "libcuda1-340" : pastebin ' dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia ' .
[04:13] <rossenburg> https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/PXd4nBk7PJ/
[04:18] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: Beats me why it did not purge. See: ' apt show libcuda1-340'. Maybe consider removing it manually ?
[04:20] <rossenburg> https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/M3yXHpy6Hr/
[04:20] <rossenburg> looks like its still on it somehow \0/
[04:23] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: Uh huh. I do not know why it would remain. Kerenls fully installed ? pastebin ' dpkg -l | grep linux- '.
[04:24] <rossenburg> https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/YJ9HnrdRWw/
[04:27] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: "binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu" - you doing cross compilations ?
[04:28] <rossenburg> have no idea
[04:31] <Bashing-om> rossenburg: Maybe this is the source of the issues ? Those with the greater experience can advise the better. See: apt show binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu // We can consider removing this also.
[04:38] <rossenburg> !pastebin
[17:09] <Rossenburg> Graphic conflicts whenever i install nvidia-340..after restart the pc get stacked at a colored splashed screen..any help?
[17:10] <tomreyn> come to #ubuntu in case you can't get help here in time
[17:10] <tomreyn> (this is probably not xubuntu specific)