[SOLVED] Upgrading to 24.04.1 LTS after installing Nvidia legacy 340xx driver

[znanruf]

I’ve been having so much trouble that I removed all the updates which I thought fixed my problem. App Center window would not open, so I could not manage updates. I filed this topic -

App Center window won't open

I’m running Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS on the following hardware - Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq 8000 Elite SFF PC Nvidia Quadro NVS 290 8 GB RAM After initial install and updates, I got a blank screen with a cursor every time I booted. I even tried building the driver from Nvidia, but it did not compile (missing stdarg.h header file). The only way I could see a screen was to boot in recovery mode and continue from there. When doing this, everything worked. Eventually I found a solution which allowed m…

From what I’m seeing, I should probably give up since I have an unsupported Nvidia NVS 290 - I’ve read that many have had trouble with this running 24.04.2.

I’m wondering if I could just upgrade my graphics card to something compatible that is supported. Any idea what that might be?

Thanks!