Issues with my graphics card in the last few days

[Aravisian]

@Locklear93

I'm in over my head in terms of the technical issue, but what I can make out is that part of the Nvidia driver (nvidia-drm, which stands for direct rendering manager, not digital rights management here) is having trouble controlling modesetting. Modesetting, from what I understand, is what provides the actual picture to the window system at a specified resolution. Or, more simply, it looks like the driver is having trouble actually getting what it wants to draw to the part of the system that puts it on your screen.

@Aravisian, I apologize for tagging you directly, but in my experience on this forum, you have the most background in graphics problems. Exposing the error in the logs is probably all I can do to be useful here.

The nomodeset parameter may help:

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For use with the 4070 card, I would highly recommend using the latest Nvidia driver

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-565 nvidia-dkms-565

Or the 570 recommended by @anon96359095, though you may need to manually configure the DKMS

in addition to the graphics updates from the Ubuntu X-Swat team:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade