BASICS: Laptop with GeForce G105M only boots to linux mint 19.3 in recovery mode

[Mart]

@richard.gantz

The laptop has 3G installed.

I guess you confuse that with mobile networking.

@richard.gantz

Could the spanning over more than one PCI bars come from the second monitor which is attached to the VGA-port, but is not recognized with the nouvou driver?

I don’t think so.

@richard.gantz

When shall i blacklist the nouveau driver?
Before or after the installation of the nvidia-340 driver via ubuntu-drivers autoupdate ?

After. Also the nomodeset parameter should be removed if present.

According to this:

Unix graphics feature deprecation schedule

Support for 32-bit x86 kernels The Linux-x86 and FreeBSD-x86 release packages, as well as support for 32-bit kernels in the Solaris package, are no longer provided starting with release 396. Support for 32-bit applications running on x86_64 kernels will continue. See Support Plan for 32-bit and 64-bit Operating Systems | NVIDIA for more details. Support for Fermi-based GPUs Fermi-based GPUs are no longer supported starting with release 396. These GPUs were supported through the release…

You could try the 390 legacy driver…
Use this ppa: Proprietary GPU Drivers : “Graphics Drivers” team

Did that system work before with windows?