Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS with a 460.80 Nvidia Driver
Just did an upgrade from 5.8.0-59-generic to 5.8.0-63-generic kernel last night and this morning my monitor connected to the VGA port on the card failed to work
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | sudo lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: GK208B [GeForce GT 710] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:29:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 resources: irq:86 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:e0000000-e7ffffff memory:e8000000-e9ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:fc000000-fc07ffff |
Temporary solution
Entering the Grub Boot Menu when using Secure / UEFI Boot
As my computer is running Secure Boot and UEFI I pressed the escape key just before I see the "Ubuntu" logo during boot to get into the grub menu
Boot to the last known good kernel
From the grub menu I select advanced options and then choose the previous kernel
Make Ubuntu Boot the Last Booted Kernel
Then if you want to stay at that kernel while you wait for a newer non problematic kernel / video driver package. Set the default boot kernel to the last one you used with the following:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1308901/setting-older-kernel-version-as-default
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