After the 30.12. update and no boot I tried switchIng to the free drivers (usb stick with nouveau and 5.9 works fine on this hardware). I removed the nvidia driver and installed the free driver. After some initial problem I cleaned out etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and left only the keyboard file. I got 1step further but running ‘startx’ then hangs.
UPDATE (since I can’t delete): Switching to the free drivers failed but following the pinned post and installing the nvidia driver worked (surprise, surprise…)!
However,
- wifi doesn’t work (seems a different issue)
- lightdm still fails (no grub) and I have to ‘startx’ from console
- update nvidia-340xx-dkms needs to install kernel 59, 510 or 511, cancelled for now
On to it. More reading to do…
Thanks for any help or pointers.