Hi,
My system works fine with the current version of the NVIDIA driver I have installed, which is nvidia-driver-470.
However, the software updater wants to install loads of updates to this driver, and if I let it, my PC becomes unbootable (can't see login screen - just a blank grey screen). I have to use Timeshift to revert to get it working again.
I could simply ignore NVIDIA updates, but it's a pain to have to uncheck all the NVIDIA related stuff every time I do an update, and I'm not sure how long I can keep doing that, so I thought I'd try to fix this.
I thought I'd try to change back to Nouveau drivers, then purge NVIDIA and start again with it, to see if I have better luck. However, if I try to select Nouveau in the "Additional Drivers" panel, I get this error (pic below). I tried basic troubleshooting steps I found online, like cleaning up packages, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
I'm not experienced enough to know the next best thing to try (rather than make it worse), so I thought I'd ask for help. How can I get a nice clean start with NVIDIA?
I'm on Ubuntu 21.04. Thanks a lot!
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