Unfortunately, nvidia-modeset required by the newer Nvidia drivers is broken on Mac ROM'ed GTX680 cards.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-340/+bug/1797791 On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 8:44 PM Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote: > 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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