Buttttt…
there is a way for you to track it
go here as I made the bug public
now you will see this in small print at the top in yellow This bug affects 1 person, but not you
click on the yellow pencil thing …
Boom you can track it.
and it will annotate that you as a user are affect by the bug.
The best part is that it will require testing so once it’s available it will be stable.
I did not want to devluge this UNTIL it was assigned … having my hand forced make me in a not so happy state.
But I do understand your pushing the issue, if I had spent what your system cost I would more than likely feel the same exact way.
one can draw more flies with milk and honey than vinegar …
I would not push on that site for updates… I advise you to just read
@stevecoh1
Now bear in mind I’m NOT upset with you at all.
And fully understand your view point.
And will be more than happy to assist you in the future (within my limited skill set)
@eeickmeyer I’m unhappy you merged my new post into this one. This will be post 146 on this thread. It’s a major pain to scroll to the bottom when it gets this long. And I thought the point at which I broke it made a lot of sense.
Annoyingly, for some reason the Ubuntu Backups utility on 22.04 won’t accept the 24.04 backup I made this morning. Fortunately, there wasn’t much there. I don’t imagine many people do backups with restores to an earlier OS version, mine was a special case, but, good to know.
Now, back on 22.04 LTS after another abortive attempt to install 24.04 as suggested by Lenovo Tech Support, I had a look at my Software & Updates “Additional Drivers” tab and I find that the problem that originally caused me to launch this thread, seems to have disappeared!
This was the screen I initially posted in February:
No longer any noise about “manually installed drivers”. I have no idea why this fixed itself, but I think it’s a good sign. Perhaps some file was updated in some repository?
I wanted to run this by this group before I try the following:
Now that I can change drivers, try to do that.
If it all works try the dist-upgrade again and see what happens.
Back in Jan/Feb 2025 we had much discussion about open-source vs proprietary drivers. Any relevant suggestions? Is there any reason I shouldn’t try the 550?
Lets flip this around, what exactly is the reason to use it over the currently working 535 one ?
(technically there is no reason to not try it, but given the headdaches you had with that machine when trying it before, is it worth risking the current stability ?)
NVIDIA driver (open kernel) metapackage from nvidia-driver-535 (proprietary)
option in Software&Updates.
Result was a system that would not boot normally. After pulling my hair out for half an hour, I was able to boot with the special boot option (using my nvram). Although this would not allow my second monitor to function it did enable me to run Software and Updates and switch it back to
NVIDIA driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-535 (proprietary)
as it had been previously. System then was bootable the normal way.
Lesson learned.
God knows what I’d get with 550, although it does claim to be “proprietary,tested”. Even the 535 doesn’t claim to be tested.
I think I’ll let this sit for awhile. My next step will be to try to get 24.04 runnable. Hopefully this “manually installed driver” crap will go away permanently.
I did, successfully upgrade to 24.04 and once I got there, I once again see the “manually installed driver” thing in Software&Updates->additional drivers. Back to where we were before.
The one thing I have learned from all this is that the do-release-upgrade command on this machine is itself the cause of the “manually installed driver” problem.
Probably because some OEM stuff is not deployed yet.
But, as Clark Gable said in “Gone With the Wind”, “frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn”. I will no longer mess with GPU drivers.
Not that I am planning to try to install any drivers beyond 535 anytime soon!!
My experiences with all of this lead me to the conclusion that there is a problem somewhere in the dependency management of the nvidia drivers packages. The final hurdle to be overcome (see the second link above) was needing to run the command
sudo apt reinstall nvidia-graphics-drivers-535
Necessary drivers had been erased by running the command
sudo apt --purge autoremove
After running that my second monitor would not function, and the Software and Updates screen reverted to the “manually installed drivers” message. Reinstalling nvidia-graphics-drivers-535 seems to have returned my system to sanity.
So I am going to call this the answer: I now have a working 24.04 system on my hardware.
There is still an outstanding issue though: If sudo apt --purge autoremove got rid of necessary libraries, thinking them unnecessary, then something is wrong with dependency management of these nvidia libraries. But I will leave that for the Lenovo OEM engineers to figure out.
I’d like to thank all the people who patiently tried to help me on this site:
