After today’s update, rebooting led to an intense, approximately two second delay between pressing key and appearance on screen, rendering laptop useless. EDIT: I also noted that the temp sensor was gone Nvidia but the standard GPU temp sensor functioned. This is somehow relevant.
Switching to intel driver solved the problem. How do I tell without destroying whole install whether new firmware or new nvidia driver was at fault, and how do I revert to before?
I should have installed a programme to do that, but since I have never had an issue with an ubuntu update it seemed low priority. Is there a way to undo what was done?
Now what do I do? (Same update has not been installed on other machines, obviously. Fooled me once……)
uname -a
Linux deblap1 6.14.0-37-generic #37~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Nov 20 10:25:38 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I can add to this conversation. After this mornings update the keyboard layout switcher applet has been added to the panel (as part of indicator applet complete) when it was never there before.And if I click on it and select show current layout I get the same warning as @Watford .
For the record, the nvdia 570 open metapackage in the gui software and updates solved the typing issue. 570 is the latest version that is truly stable.
Thank you all for your patience and help. Now, back to work!
Yep, be careful when updating NVIDIA drivers. They won't stick to the series you expect, so you could be sitting on 550 and then suddenly get bumped to 580 (even with the nvidia-driver-550 package installed).
I'm now extremely conservative when it comes to upgrading the NVIDIA drivers (mostly using apt-mark hold); and I always make sure that I can roll back before I proceed.
