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initial question

I was bragging on IRC about how NoModeSet finally allowed me to boot normally for the first time without tricking my graphics drivers not to run, and was told to run the following command:

jay@KingdomClubs:~$ uname -a && lsb_release -a && sudo lshw -C video

Linux KingdomClubs 4.15.0-43-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 6 14:44:00 UTC 2018 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

Release:    18.04

Codename:   bionic

[sudo] password for jay:

  *-display UNCLAIMED      

       description: VGA compatible controller

       product: G72 [GeForce 7350 LE]

       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0

       version: a1

       width: 64 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list

       configuration: latency=0

       resources: memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:c0000-dffff

jay@KingdomClubs:~$

I was told I wasn't up to date, and hadn't installed nVidia drivers. Indeed it seemed strange because I remember checking the lubuntu site and apparently they're latest LTS version was 18.04.2

I remember at one point being prompted to update automatically but I guess it didn't anymore. I'm not sure why. Anyway I ran the following as suggested on IRC:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

It's about 24% so hopefully that's a step in the right direction. Although it's unclear to me if this will install nVidia drivers. Would anyone know what I search in Synaptic Package Manager to get those?

IRC also suggested following:

apt full-upgrade

I assume I would precede that with 'sudo' to give root permission? But I am not sure what diff between "upgrade" and "full-upgrade" would be. Could anyone explain that?

I already used SPM to verify "ubuntu-drivers" was installed in response to How do I fix a frozen black screen on Lubuntu startup? which I thought meant that my video card driver software would be up to date but I guess I am wrong...

Or... is it possibly something to do with needing to activate it via the "autoinstall" command?

1st reply, to guiver

"if this is needed" sounds like it won't remove packages unless they interfere with system upgrade? I guess you would only do a normal "upgrade" if you were in the middle of something and didn't want to reboot right then. I guess I will run that next.

I got the following screen https://i.imgur.com/ZN7AVI5.png transcribed below:

Package configuration



 ┌──────────────────────────┤ Configuring grub-pc ├──────────────────────────┐

 │ A new version (/tmp/grub.SnIFfR3w39) of configuration file                │ 

 │ /etc/default/grub is available, but the version installed currently has   │ 

 │ been locally modified.                                                    │ 

 │                                                                           │ 

 │ What do you want to do about modified configuration file grub?            │ 

 │                                                                           │ 

 │           install the package maintainer's version                        │ 

 │           keep the local version currently installed                      │ 

 │           show the differences between the versions                       │ 

 │           show a side-by-side difference between the versions             │ 

 │           show a 3-way difference between available versions              │ 

 │           do a 3-way merge between available versions                     │ 

 │           start a new shell to examine the situation                      │ 

 │                                                                           │ 

 │                                                                           │ 

 │                                  <Ok>                                     │ 

 │                                                                           │ 

 └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 

I don't know if there was any major change to the grub file between 18.04.1 and 18.04.2 but it seems like the safe bet might be to take the first option (package maintainer's version) and then if I get the same problems at bootup as before, then redo my steps with switching quiet splash to nodemodeset?

On IRC it was recommended I just keep the local one, implying that there wasn't anything changed though, so I guess I'll do that for now?

I'm sure if I do full-upgrade it will just prompt me again anyway. Options 3-7 I'm not sure I even want to think about, they sound complex.