Cfrgtkky

Operational system: Lubuntu 18.04 // upgraded forcefully from 16.04

    architeture: amd64 

    Video graphic card: GeForce 7200 GS / 7300 SE

Everything was functioning normally, but sometimes when i was watching videos on the YOuTube [in G. Chromer] the screen froze with only the sound of the video continuing and even trying to turn on/off Num/Caps Lock keys didn't nothing, so i had to restart the computer when this happened. I figured that the problem may be the drivers, so i thought that i should reinstall the drivers. I purged the nvidia drivers, and tried reinstalling it, and it messed everything. Now my screen is widescreen and stretched and the image is bad. i tried reinstalling again the drivers [both by apt-get install and aptitude install] but nothing really happens after installing the drivers.

I can't open the Nvidia X Server Settings [it is in the menu, if i click on it nothing happens]. Some commands i used and their outputs:

nvidia-settings



 ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

.

$ lsmod | grep nvidia

$: command not found

.

$ sudo lshw -c display

  *-display UNCLAIMED       

       description: VGA compatible controller

       product: G72 [GeForce 7200 GS / 7300 SE]

       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0

       version: a1

       width: 64 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list

       configuration: latency=0

       resources: memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:c0000-dffff

What should I do? I looked for many solutions in this site, but none of them worked for me.

Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: I tried Terrance's link steps, and what i'm getting:

$ nvidia-settings



ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded





ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system





$ nvidia-smi



Command 'nvidia-smi' not found, but can be installed with:



sudo apt install nvidia-340      

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-390

I still can't open the NVidia Server X Settings, nor can't i change things like screen size. Oh, and the latest driver that supports my graphic card is the 304, so i think that installing these drivers that doesn't support my graphic card may mess everything up more. The command "lsmod | grep nvidia" returns no output.

edit²: tried

$ sudo apt install nvidia-304

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following additional packages will be installed:

  lib32gcc1 libc6-i386

Recommended packages:

  libcuda1-304 nvidia-opencl-icd-304

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  libgl1-mesa-glx libglx-mesa0

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  lib32gcc1 libc6-i386 nvidia-304

0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 0 B/38,5 MB of archives.

After this operation, 188 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y

(Reading database ... 171909 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 (18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1) ...

Removing libglx-mesa0:amd64 (18.0.0~rc5-1ubuntu1) ...

Selecting previously unselected package libc6-i386.

(Reading database ... 171896 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to unpack .../libc6-i386_2.27-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...

Unpacking libc6-i386 (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...

Selecting previously unselected package lib32gcc1.

Preparing to unpack .../lib32gcc1_1%3a8-20180414-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...

Unpacking lib32gcc1 (1:8-20180414-1ubuntu2) ...

Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-304.

Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-304_304.137-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...

Unpacking nvidia-304 (304.137-0ubuntu2) ...

Setting up libc6-i386 (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...

Setting up lib32gcc1 (1:8-20180414-1ubuntu2) ...

Setting up nvidia-304 (304.137-0ubuntu2) ...

update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-304/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode

update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-304/alt_ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode

update-alternatives: using /usr/share/nvidia-304/glamor.conf to provide /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/glamoregl.conf (glamor_conf) in auto mode

dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty

dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty

update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

INFO:Enable nvidia-304

DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude

DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here

DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad

Loading new nvidia-304-304.137 DKMS files...

Building for 4.15.0-20-generic

Building for architecture x86_64

Building initial module for 4.15.0-20-generic

ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/nvidia-304.0.crash'

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic (x86_64)

Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-304/304.137/build/make.log for more information.

Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3) ...

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-20-generic

/sbin/ldconfig.real: Warning: ignoring configuration file that cannot be opened: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf: No such file or directory

/sbin/ldconfig.real: Warning: ignoring configuration file that cannot be opened: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf: No such file or directory



$ nvidia-smi

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with NVIDIA driver. Make sure that latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-core libgl1-mesa-glx

nvidia-304 driver has been removed from 18.04 because it run out of support and Kernel 4.15 doesn't compile it.
Here is a patch, but I haven't tested it
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-304/+bug/1737750

Nouveau is the option that ubuntu gives but i might have some problem, for example Kodi doesn't support nouveau.
more info:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-304/+bug/1748000

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1032541/linux/304-137-doesn-t-install-in-ubuntu-18-04-got-removed-from-ubuntu-repositories-/

I fixed the problem with:

sudo apt install libwayland-egl1 

sudo dpkg -a --configure

reboot

Seems to be some kind of issue with the 2 files libwayland-egl1 and the one which installs libwayland-egl1-mesa. Have noticed that with the libwayland-egl1-mesa installed lots of problems items won't open etc. Perhaps this is an upgrade issue since I have only come across this in upgrade situations so far.

Try adding:

slab_common.usercopy_fallback=y 

to kernel options. It worked for me, no more frozen black screens.

I am using the NVidia driver 304-137 with a 4.17.0 kernel.

$ sudo prime-select nvidia

logout and re login, nvidia-settings will can open the nvidia-gui