Computer games ... part two

[malada]

Armed with a USB with Xubuntu I was ready for the wipe and reinstall.

Everything went smoothly until the first reboot.

The Nvidia drivers were broken.

I checked the kernel and... WTF... it installed the latest kernel (5.3)! The one that *broke* my Mint system. Fortunately, it also installed 5.0 kernel as a back up and I was able to boot to that kernel, download Synaptic - rip out the 5.3 kernel, install the low latency kernel - and oh, it was a thing of beauty when it booted up with the correct Nvidia drivers all working.

I might have been able to do that with my Mint system but when I reverted to the older kernel in Mint the Nvidia drivers were still broken.

Yeah, I lost a few hours. It happens. I haven't had time to check the Ubuntu forums - I can't be the only one with this problem. I think for my next system I'm going to try an AMD video card so I won't have to worry about Nvidia drivers.

I still have some back up files to transfer, but my audio production system appears to be up and running again.

As I said to one person, "I can fix all your Windows problems with this Linux install disk. Then you'll have Linux problems!"


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Comments

[siliconshaman]

Yeah, I've learnt that unless you're sure it'll work, it's better NOT to set it to install latest updates, while setting up. And only use LTS distros.

[malada]

Oddly, I used Xubuntu 18.04.03 - the latest LTS version. I'm scratching my head why it installed the 5.3 kernel. All my other boxes are still at the 4.15 versions.

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[siliconshaman]

Huh.. yeah that is weird!