I have a Dell XPS 8940 running Mint 20.3 fully updated. Looking at the recommended driver for my GeForce RTX 3060, I see it's
nvidia-driver-510
. So I tried installing that, replacing nvidia-driver-470
. After rebooting, the display manager comes up and I try to log in, but I'm returned to the login screen within a few seconds. I recover from this by reinstalling the original (from the console): sudo apt install nvidia-driver-470
.I am wondering if there's something else I need to do to get this to work. The output below indicates the 510 driver is "recommended":
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$ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:02:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00002504sv00001028sd0000C974bc03sc00i00
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
driver : nvidia-driver-470 - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-510 - distro non-free recommended
driver : nvidia-driver-470-server - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-510-server - distro non-free
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
.xession-errors
output, sanitized of username.To be honest, I'm only doing this due to an infrequent and unpredictable system hang about every 2-3 weeks, I click something and the system freezes completely - can't even use the Magic SysRequest key to sync and reboot. Company IT person suggested it could be the Nvidia driver; they're smart but not a Linux expert. I've run the Dell hardware diagnostics but that turns up nothing. I've run the Heaven 2009 benchmark and the card gets nice and warm but no crashing.
The huge PITA here is that the issue happens infrequently, but just often enough to piss me off, like when I'm in the middle of a huge data analysis push. Would welcome any advice on what to try next.
Thanks,
Charles