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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!"
-m
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!"
-m
