Firstly I want to apologize because there’s going to be very little detail that I can give, because I don’t know what details are relevant. I’ll provide more details if needed.
I’m running Ubuntu Mate 18.04 Kernel 4.15.0.38-generic
What happened was, I updated my computer, it look liked it had to do with xorg, libnvidia410. After that update, it broke the graphics driver. (The resolution is all out, games won’t play)
I’ve tried to reinstall the latest graphics driver from graphics-driver ppa, I’ve tried with nvidia.run file, i’ve blacklisted nouveau, all to no avail. I’ve no idea what’s going on, and I don’t know what to do other than a clean install, which won’t be much help if it happens again.
I tried checking the update and it seems that it does have something to do with the latest xorg update to nvidia, specifically anything to do with 410.73. I removed and purged every nvidia related files that was possible.
So far these are the only files left that couldn’t be purged or removed, they seem to be NVIDIA libcompute packages
rc libnvidia-compute-396:amd64 396.54-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1
rc libnvidia-compute-396:i386 396.54-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1
ii libnvidia-compute-410:amd64 410.73-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1
rc libnvidia-compute-410:i386 410.73-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1
I’ve installed drivers from NVIDIA specifically 410.66.run, since that’s the only one that seems to work. I’m still not sure what happened, why it happened, but at least for the time being it’s fixed.