NVIDIA Drivers forcing display to 640x480

I am using a PNY/NVIDIA Quadro k6000 graphics card, which uses older drivers (470xx). Whenever I install these drivers and reboot, the screen resolution is forced to 640x480 and I can’t change it. (I’ve tried xrandr and arandr and the NVIDIA settings.)

This seems to be because all output devices are replaced with a dummy “None-1” output. While it still outputs to my monitor correctly, the EDID for my monitor is not being read.

The only solution that works so far is to completely uninstall the NVIDIA drivers, but I want to use this computer for gaming and I can’t run my games without drivers. (When I do install the drivers, though, I’ve tried to run the games and they still won’t work.)

I’ve lost track of all the things I’ve tried but I’ve read every forum post I could find on the topic and no dice. I’ve had to make a dozen fresh installs from how badly the advice broke things and I’m at my wit’s end.

Mod edit:- We already understand you wish some help, that much is implied simply by creating a Support topic – Adding “Please help” (or similar) is superfluous and generally discouraged … Removed.

Just noting that if you use Wayland, xrandr will not work - it’s only designed for use with Xorg.

Please provide system information as described (below).

470xx drivers do support your card; 390xx drivers do also - perhaps it’s worth trying those.

Being an AMD graphics user, I have not much else to offer, but once you provide more information I’m sure someone will help when they are able.

Regards.


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