Now that you know that the free driver works and how to get it working,
you could work on getting back on a working proprietary driver - if the free driver somehow isn’t good enough.
… it did work before, after all … 
Nvidia dropped support for a number of older GPU architectures in their drivers. This is probably why the driver no longer worked after the update.
I would therefore recommend against messing with the proprietary drivers again. It’s a moving target.
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I don’t know if that explains what happened with grub dying for a bit, but it does make sense for why the graphics driver stopped working.
I haven’t tested any games yet, but it seems videos and my programs all work. the only thing I am noticing is some slight color differences, some things look a little more washed out, but I’m just glad it’s working at all
Well, those won’t work. Or at least, not as they should. nouveau does not support 3D acceleration.
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Oh…that could potentially be an issue…but I tested a few of the 3D games I do have, they are sluggish, but they DO work technically, and are mostly playable I guess. I don’t play anything to graphically demanding. Honestly, the most graphically demanding game I play is the one I am making, and thats only because I suck at optimizing, ha ha
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FYI: You can redirect command output to a file instead of copy/pasting:
command >> ~/log.file
Using >> appends the output to the file, preserving any previous content. Using > overwrites the file, replacing its contents with the new output.
You can then open ~/log.file in any text editor or paste its contents elsewhere.
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There are also text mode browsers:
elinks, links, w3m
which you can use when in a TTY to, somewhat clumsily, use the internet to gather information and/or download stuff you might need.
There is even (it’s ancient, actually) a tool called gpm which will give you the ability to use your mouse instead of the keyboard only.
I haven’t been able to figure out how I could use this site here properly - I can navigate and read everything, but I cannot log in to interact like with a “normal” browser.
Perhaps javascript is needed for this, which these simple browsers do not support. I don’t know.
I know that the emacs editor can double as a browser as well - if one has that installed and can use it.
Yes. Modern websites and forums such as Discourse are bidrectional — even though it’s not actually real-time — and console-based browsers such as links, lynx, w3m and friends do not support this. They were designed for static web pages.
emacs is a nice operating system. It just lacks a good editor. 
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Some years ago I got interested in Gemini and gopher network.
But didn’t had a purpose for myself at the time.
I like the simplicity of it. No java of whatever. Very static… only text.
I liked the community and ascii art stuff, maybe lain was there too.
This link is kinda introduction to gopher… Not sure if this will help for diagnostics But fun to explore for a while…
lynx gopher://gopher.floodgap.com
Welcome to Floodgap Systems' official gopher server.
Floodgap has served the gopher community since 1999
(formerly gopher.ptloma.edu).
We run Bucktooth 0.2.9 on xinetd as our server system.
gopher.floodgap.com is an IBM Power 520 Express with a 2-way
4.2GHz POWER6 CPU and 8GB of RAM, running AIX 6.1 +patches.
Send gopher@floodgap.com your questions and suggestions.
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** OVER 20 YEARS SERVING YOU! **
** Plain text is beautiful! **
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