External monitor freezes when using dedicated GPU

@generix @j22gim
Hopefully, I am not Jinxing anything now … but I have used 510 for 30min+ now without any freees.
What I found weird is that it looks like both 510 and 525 are installed:

apt list --installed | grep nvidia-driver

nvidia-driver-510/jammy-updates,jammy-security,jammy,now 525.125.06-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 amd64 [installed]
nvidia-driver-525/jammy-updates,jammy-security,jammy,now 525.125.06-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

Anyhow, I worked my way down doing

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-545
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-535
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-530
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-525
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-520
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-515
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-510

In between each new install, I did:

sudo apt remove -y nvidia-driver-* nvidia-* libnvidia-* libnvidia-*:i386 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-*; sudo apt autoremove -y
reboot

Finally! I do hope this driver does not cause any more freeze issues.

Not that it’s a bug report, more like an “It’s all good”-report, but I’ll attach one if e.g. @amrits wants to have a look:
nvidia-bug-report_510.log.gz (529.6 KB)

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