440 ought to work with that card, if I'm reading this right: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/159360/en-us - Dan
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 4:30 PM Dimitri John Ledkov <x...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 20:53, Jack Howarth > <howarth.mailing.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am finding on a 2008 MacPro with GTX680 that the installation of > the nvidia-340 package under Ubuntu 20.04 prevents single user mode boots > from working. While the nvidia-340 driver works fine from a normal boot, > when 'single' is added before 'quiet' in the grub kernel arguments, the > boot produces a black screen that never returns the expected single user > mode prompts. > > A parallel test with current Ubuntu 18.04 with either the stock > nvidia-340 340.107-0ubuntu0.18.04.4 package or the > nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 340.108-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 show both of them can > successfully boot into single user mode. > > Jack > > nvidia-340 is a very old version of nvidia. > > 20.04 LTS has: nvidia-driver-390, nvidia-driver-435, nvidia-driver-440. > > Can you please use Super to search and launch "additional drivers" > select 440 driver and install and try that one? It is the recommended > version of nvidia on 20.04 LTS. Or whichever is highest and supports > your nvidia card. > > -- > Regards, > > Dimitri. > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss >
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