That was when they’d reinstalled using the non-free driver, but it didn’t actually install the driver. There was no driver installed, OP replaced libxvnctrl with libxvnctrl-470xx then installed the 470xx driver.
Then you advised to reinstall with the non-free driver again - before it was tested!
That link says post 132.
Based on your advice, they’d reinstalled again with free drivers.
I’ve said this several times now - libxnvctrl is being pulled in by xfce4-sensors-plugin
Depends On : xfce4-panel lm_sensors libnotify libxnvctrl hicolor-icon-theme
No it wouldn’t, as the driver wasn’t installed when booting with non-free, it actually takes more effort to remove the free driver.
Many posts were split to a new topic, and subsequently to another, as the OP switches focus dramatically rather than observing the “one problem, one topic” rule.
@nikgnomic may need to perform some recalculation.
Thank you to all who took the time to help me. I appreciate it.
I apologise for veering off the topic.
I have now installed the proprietary driver and that is a solution for which I am grateful. So we can mark a solution. Thank you dmt and nikgnomic.
Unfortunately this is not working out for me. As soon as I installed the proprietary driver, I tried to reboot and my system sat for 15 minutes on a screen that had only the words loadkmap:short read on it. I am going to take in the PC for a service and maybe try buy myself a GPU that is not Nvidia.
Thank you all for your incredible patience and all your advice.
