I tried replacing the NVIDIA M2000 card with a non-NVIDIA card (a FirePro Graphics V5900 that had been in my Dell Precision T5600 prior to acquiring the NVIDIA M2000 secondhand), but the same thing still happens. I am now a bit gun-shy of switching from the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (open source) driver to anything NVIDIA! I can’t honestly say which driver I was using on MATE 20.3 before the MATE 21 installation – but probably 470. Then after all of the suggested updates had been installed, the DRIVER MANAGER was recommending nvidia-driver-515. Some observations about that MATE 20.3 re-installation:Īfter the installation had completed and the first re-boot, the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (open source) driver was in use, and the DRIVER MANAGER recommended nvidia-driver-470. The bottom line is that I have ABANDONED this issue and marked it accordingly. And so far everything has been working as advertised. I did look at the posts that you referenced, but there was nothing that quite matched my situation.Įverything worked fine and dandy under MATE 20.3 and since I need the machine to be working sooner rather than later, I reinstalled that older version of MATE. I searched the installed root folder for: but nothing was found. I can only supply the information that is available when booted from a live disk. My Dell Precision T5600 BIOS A19 does have secure boot ON – and Dell have not provided a way to turn it off. This may be at the root of my NVIDIA driver failing to load. The process to create keys and sign the modules varies by computer manufacturer. If it is enabled, the Nvidia kernel modules will need to be signed (MOK) before they will load at boot time. If you have Nvidia graphics and the driver is not loading even though it is showing in Driver Manager as being installed, check if Secure Boot is enabled by running mokutil -sb-state in a terminal. In the Tips For Troubleshooting Graphics Issues it says: I waded through the many forum threads relating to NVIDIA 515, but found nothing to point me in the correct direction. The last posting (from 18-Jun-20) says that he had success with NVIDIA driver 440 in Mint 19, But that driver is not even in the current list supplied by the Driver Manager program: The drivers involved in this mess of my making are: Yes, I could start from scratch and re-build the machine, but restoring the open source NVIDIA driver that had previously been installed would be preferable! Hoping to find an NVIDIA configuration file or something to wind back, I booted from a live Mint MATE 21 disk, searched the installed root folder for NVIDIA but to my dismay found 1442 items totalling 1.7GB. I tried replacing the NVIDIA M2000 card with a non-NVIDIA card, but the same thing still happens. Pressing a key does nothing whatever no matter how long I wait. Stupidly did not save anything with TIMESHIFT, and went to bed.īooting the machine now, before the Linux Mint logo appears on the screen I get this white writing on a black background message: Starting much later in the evening than was sensible I installed Mint MATE 21, crafted it the way that I wanted which included installing all of the programs that I routinely use and the recommended NVIDIA driver for my NVIDIA QUADRO M2000 graphics card. Yes, I know… How do I uninstall the driver? ![]() The recommended version of the NVIDIA QUADRO M2000 driver hangs my computer.
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