NVIDIA and Zorin 17.1 Lite: KERNEL upgrade issue

[Ponce-De-Leon]

@chamo

After the migration to Zorin 17.x, the option for upgrading the NVIDIA driver is not anymore visible.

You mean in the ''Additional Drivers'' Tab in software & Updates? Is there no Nvidia Overview or or is there the Overview but the Options are greyed out and it is chosen the last Option which says that You use a manually installed Driver?

@chamo

Perhaps the best option for me is to downgrade the KERNEL to a previous version?
For example the KERNEL 6.3 seems to be compatible with my graphic card.

Yes, You could try it with that. The last Comment of this Thread explains it:

Resolution Stuck at 800x600 and Nvidia Drivers not getting installed

The Kernel which is required to install nvidia-driver-390 is 5.15.0-121-generic ,The Command to install this kernel is : sudo apt install linux-image-5.15.0-121-generic And after installing 5.15 kernel you will have to delete the previous kernel. To Do that first identify the kernels which are currently installed by the following command : dpkg --list | grep linux-image after that choose the kernel you want to delete for example after running the above command you will see something like th…