Recently I got hold of a new graphics card after my old card died from overheating. The new card is a NVidia 1060GT with 6GB RAM. It can handle 4K, but my screen cannot.
My big problem is now that the live CDs/DVDs of different Linux distributions all switch to a resolution that is far too high for the screen. Nouveau also complains about an unknown chipset.
A text only distribution like Arch Linux does not have this issue since it does not switch out of text mode.
I have tried various options like modeset=0, nouveau.modeset=0, nvidia.modeset=0 and others, nothing worked.
The following Ubuntu bug report mentions NVidia Pascal chipsets. It looks like I need to get yet again the latest distro to get past this issue.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1602340
Hopefully the latest distro will work. I have used Mint lately which is based on Ubuntu. As long as I can get access to my data, it does not matter what distro is in use.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
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