Can you please post a screenshot of your terminal output of the command?
Usually, the "unable to locate package" warning lists only the package name, not the install command...
I scrolled up and looked, you are on Z17.2
Can you launch Software & Updates and in the first tab, ensure the top four boxes are checked.
Then below that, in Download from - set this to "Main Server."
Once that is done, close it out. Then launch a terminal.
Run
sudo apt update
to update your sources. Now check for drivers:
apt search nvidia-driver
and look to see which versions are listed. You will see a long list... So only focus on the ones that format as "nvidia-driver-5XX"
So running the search provided a large list as you stated, we found the 565 driver so we further restricted the searched based off what we found and got this. I have switched from Wayland to Xorg, do I install the nVidia driver or the Xorg nVidia driver?
Also when we ran sudo apt update we got this, could this be the cause of any of our freezing problem?
Using
sudo apt install nvidia-driver565 nvidia-dkms-565
Really should work...
But it is possible that the automated ubuntu-drivers-common package recognizes a specific conflict between your card and that driver; in which case, do not force it.
What about:
sudo apt install nvidia-driver550 nvidia-dkms-550
i286? What?
What does the terminal produce for
dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
We'll try the drivers listed tomorrow, the print command returned 1386 and 1286 in that order
Well, i286 is... quite old. That would be the 80286 released by intel in the early 1980's.
I must assume that either a typo was involved when adding 32bit arch support or... at some point you were looking for 16 bit support?
You can remove it with
sudo dpkg --remove-architecture i286
I am not personally aware of any modern 80286 16bit support in GnuLinux, though it may well be present in BSD and other sources of Linux.
The machine isn't new but it's not more than 5 years old. We will try the remove command tonight, should we also remove 1386 too?
If you are using Wine, Zorin-Windows-App-Support, Lutris or Bottles, you need to keep i386 arch support. Really, any Windows OS Compatibility layer needs it.
If you are not using Wine or Windows OS applications on Zorin OS - I recommend that you do remove it.
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Good to know, yes, that's a big part of the machine since my son is coming from Windows and has a lot of Windows apps we're migrating if we can't find Linux versions. Thanks for the clarification!
When we tried the 550 driver and we got the same "Unable to locate package sudo apt install nvidia-driver-550" like we did with the 565 driver. Per this screenshot I'm wondering if we need to install the nVidia driver or the Xorg nVidia driver since we moved from Wayland to Xorg?
Try running this command, then restart the computer after its finished. Then have a look at your additional drivers tab, it might work.
sudo apt install --reinstall gnome-software
The last officially supported driver for the M2000 was, I think, the 470.
That said, I would expect the ubuntu-drivers list in Software & Updates might be limited by compatibility, but not APT.
Have you added the graphics drivers repository?
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
You can check for compatible drivers using
ubuntu-drivers devices
Thanks for the command StarTreker, I can sure try that tonight.
Aravisian, I have not made any changes to the repository but I can sure do these steps too and report back here
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StarTreker, your command ran without issue so we're monitoring.
Aravisian, your commands were ran but to my understanding we appear to have an error on the update command. Running the devices command returned the 470 driver you mentioned and another XORG driver.
Here is the repository:
I can only suspect that something went wrong with the keyring, due to the Ubuntu Graphics Driver most definitely being signed - in fact, it has to be signed in order to be uploaded into Launchpad and accepted.
Let's try correcting it.
Remove the repo first:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
Ensure the keyring is properly added while adding the repository with this more complicated command:
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/graphics-drivers.gpg] http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers.list
We will give this a shot and report back
Aravisian, it appears we no longer has errors with your latest commands, I'm just still unsure of which driver we need to install?
The command
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-550 nvidia-dkms-550
should work, based on your list.
It shows the 550 proprietary as 'recommended.'
We'll give that a try tonight. Just curious why I wouldn't use the Xorg version since we moved from Wayland?