There may be an easier way and I am just not smart enough to point in that direction. But this is an issue that comes up often enough (Mostly with Realtek Drivers) that it is probably well worth me learning more about.
New kernel 5.11.0-36 + new nvidia driver 470.74 is working fine here.
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Finally some good news for a change! 
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Thread updated with Pop! OS 21.04 tutorial and dkms solution for Zorin OS 16 so users don't have to reinstall the nvidia driver when a kernel upgrade has been done.
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I would if I could brother, but I don't have mod privilege, I can edit the title, but not your post. I'll edit it in spirit, yeah I know, doesn't help much, its the thought that counts lol. Its a beautiful post though, you are super stellar! 
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25 times, I would say so.
Be careful what you wish for... I changed almost everything.
For a good reason, though. I removed much of the bold text, as for users copy/pasting it, it can cause problems. I replaced all block quotes with quotes or with markdown copy tags to prevent the markdown software from mis-rendering the actual text.
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I know, wanted to create a simple and good tutorial for the forum. I am a perfectionist
Thanks 
Simple?
That one post is as long as the Linux Kernel.
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What ? whahaha you kidding me ? Maybe Linus Torvalds has a job for me 
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The Linux kernel has around 27.8 million lines of code in its Git repository.
When Dennis Nadrey screwed up Jurassic Park's security systems, Samual L Jackson was asked by the park owner, John Hammond, how many lines of code are there?
While smoking like a chimney on that cigar, cause thats what people did back then, (Yeah I know, I can imagine the inside of those Unix based systems too) he said there were 2-million lines of code.
So yeah, I think the Linux kernel has surpassed Jurassic's software code considerably.
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Hi, I really appericiate the tutorial, I am currently struggling with messed up monitors.
When I follow your tutorial, my OS ends up crashing at step 7, I hope thats not intentional?
Also, if I ignore step 7 and go straight to 9, my installation will get stuck at 5%.
I am not too experienced with Linux, but enjoy the OS and would like it to get resolved, is there any kind of info I can give out for others to help with troubleshooting?
Nvidia released a beta driver yesterday. Kernel 2.6.32 is out of support and the driver requires kernel 3.10 or up. The good thing is most linux distro's use a much higher version so there is nothing to worry about.
Version 495.29.05 Release Highlights:
Added support for the GBM API. This adds the new symlink nvidia-drm_gbm.so pointing to the file libnvidia-allocator.so.VERSION to implement a GBM backend driver usable with the GBM loader from the Mesa project version 21.2 and above, as well as the files libnvidia-egl-gbm.so.1.1.0 and 15_nvidia_gbm.json, which implement EGL support for the GBM platform (EGL_KHR_platform_gbm).
Add indicator for Resizable BAR support on compatible systems.
Fixed a bug that could cause the X server to crash when starting a new server generation on PRIME configurations.
Removed support for NvIFROpenGL. This functionality was deprecated in the 470.xx driver release.
Removed libnvidia-cbl.so from the driver package. This functionality is now provided by other driver libraries.
Changed the minimum required Linux kernel version from 2.6.32 to 3.10.
Updated nvidia.ko to load even if no supported NVIDIA GPUs are present when an NVIDIA NVSwitch device is detected in the system. Previously, nvidia.ko would fail to load into the kernel if no supported GPUs were present.
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Well, that tears it. Now what am I going to do?
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!!!!!!UPGRADE!!!!!!! 
<Dances around the room throwing hands up>
Celebrate!
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Reinstall DOS
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Funny people you guys are haha, just thought i share something.
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Can I do that from Terminal?
Yes we are funny........loookin 
@Aravisian I believe you can do almost anything from terminal. Maybe not a Linux terminal in this case though.
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