I've spent the past two days wrestling with NVIDIA drivers to no avail.
I recently got a GeForce RTX 2080 TI, and I've done a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04.
Attempting to install NVIDIA drivers results in the following message on boot:
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root: clean, 210651/60979056 files, 6553314/243690176 blocks
I've tried installing the drivers via:
ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
sudo apt-get install nvidia-440
sudo apt-get install nvidia-450
- Downloading the
.run
file from the NVIDIA Drivers website and installing that way
Each time, the error message is the same, talking about blocks.
After the first three commands, I was able to drop into recovery mode and run:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
Which brought the system back to life. However, after my fourth attempt at installing, that no longer works, I presume because the GUI installer installed to some other location?
I've no idea how to move forward from here. Has anyone been able to get the drivers working on Ubuntu 20.04?
Update 8/3/20
I downgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 and that allowed me to install the drivers and boot. Maybe there's an issue with the drivers and 20.04.