Looks fine. Please confirm that you didn’t find anything under Additional Drivers.
You can also try what @pmaranhaor suggested - at the login screen, click the cog next to the Sign In button to select.
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there is nothing in additional drivers. I’m already on zorin desktop not using desktop on wayland.
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I looked here under the 7 series (I don’t know if 7025 falls under 7 series, I’m just guessing) and they have Linux 64 bit drivers listed. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/
Can you find your card’s driver and download? We can walk through the installation if the Nvidia instructions are unclear.
There are also some suggestions here but I don’t recommend you try them yet.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/131508/12-04-and-nvidia-card-problem-with-nvidia-geforce-7025#130209 For now just get the Nvidia driver from their website as mentioned earlier.
I found my card listed under the 6 series. There wasn’t any for linux. i found a *.run file on another site. downloaded it. How do i install it?
Right click on the file -> Properties -> Permissions -> check the box for “Allow executing file as program”. Close that window. Double-click on the file.
tried that as instructed. it spins for about 10-20 seconds then stops. nothing else happens.
Navigate to directory where you downloaded the file. Then try chmod +x <filename.run> and then ./<filename.run>
did that. got an error. “installer must be run as root”
As long as you’re comfortable with the source of that file: sudo ./<filename.run>
i did that. i think something got messed up. my resolution is way off and i can’t change it in settings. says unknown display as well. the About screen shows my graphics as lvmpipe (LLVM 10.0.0, 128 bits).
Try these, in order, to see if they fix your issue:
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall- Using Synaptic, search for “nvidia” (without quotes). Toggle the “Installed version” column" to bring up just what you have installed. Post a screenshot of those results, here.
- Keep these for consideration, don’t try them yet until we have had a chance to look at your results from step #2 (in case step #1 doesn’t work):
a. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1208354/ubuntu-18-04-4-uses-llvmpipe-instead-of-intel-radeon-hd-8750m#1209318
b. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/ubuntu-18-04-still-uses-llvmpipe-driver/82126/12
nvidia-prime is the one you installed (or at least what I don’t have on my system. Albeit, I have integrated graphics). Once you remove it, your graphics should go back to what they were.
no change after removing nvidia prime.
I’m curious - what was the website where you found this .run file?
Unless @jgordon or @zabadabadoo have other ideas, may be quicker to just do a reinstall of the OS.
@lderry @carmar What about item 3a from your @carmar post 21/25?
Somewhere in there is a link to 32bit and 64bit drivers. I assume as @lderry has Core, 64bit one is appropriate. But is that the one that has been downloaded and tried above?
I am afraid I do not have nvidia graphics to worry about so cannot call on personal experience. Sound not display is my pet gremlin.
this is the link. https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/304.128/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.128.run
I’ll take a look at the other one that has been posted. if i can’t get anything from it i may just do what you suggested and reinstall.
I went ahead and reinstalled the OS last night. Time will tell if doing so solved the problem. I put it in a new partition. Technically its a triple boot right now. If it seems to be ok I’ll remove the previous installation and expand the current installation into that space.
The reinstall seems to have worked. It has locked up a few times but not like it was. I did expand the partition as well. set up with Zorin and Windows 7. thanks for the help. 
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