Hello
Display problem in Ubuntu 20.04
when I use
“Using XX.org server - New display driver from xserver-org-video-new” I do have a 1920X1080 display. However, when I choose the driver installed by default:
“Using Nvidia metapackage from nvidia-driver-455 (owner)”
on reboot, I only have a 1024X768 display
my graphics card is an nVidia GTX 1050 ti 4Go; I am on the VGA output of the graphics card
nvidia-smi gives me "NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running. "
nvidia-settings gives me this:
"ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded
ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system
(nvidia-settings: 19184): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15: 09: 40.911: g_object_unref: assertion ‘G_IS_OBJECT (object)’ failed
** Message: 15: 09: 40.914: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort
** Message: 15: 09: 40.914: PRIME: is it supported? No "
I hate to break it to you, but I think your “GTX 1050 Ti” is fake. It’s an old Fermi GPU that’s been hacked to report itself as a 1050 Ti. Note that the audio function still reports itself as GF116 even though the graphics function misreports itself as a GP107:
Another telltale giveaway is that Pascal and newer GPUs don’t support VGA outputs, so if your card has one of those then it’s bogus.
The driver queries the actual capabilities of the GPU rather than just going based on the PCI device ID, which is why it’s reporting your GPU as not supported. Fermi GPUs are only supported in the legacy release 390 series of drivers.
[ 95.505011] NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:06:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:1c82)
NVRM: installed in this system is not supported by the
NVRM: NVIDIA 455.38 driver release.
NVRM: Please see 'Appendix A - Supported NVIDIA GPU Products'
NVRM: in this release's README, available on the operating system
NVRM: specific graphics driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
[ 95.505041] nvidia: probe of 0000:06:00.0 failed with error -1
[ 95.505048] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
[ 95.505049] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA devices were initialized.