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Having an issue with NVidia card in my DELL Optiplex 755 (GForce 390) not initializing at boot

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Here is the log entry I believe shows the error;

Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" 
  (argument: "device_id="1" name="usb-046d_0825_4ED1A7A0-02" 
              card_name="alsa_card.usb-046d_0825_4ED1A7A0-02"  
              namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no  
              ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=yes  
              avoid_resampling=no  
              card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""
  ):  
initialization failed.

Workaround is to open terminal and retype

apt install nvidia-driver-390 

in ssh mode, reboot, and the system boots normally.
Any ideas on how to stabilize the boot up?

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I have a number of 755s here, but cannot even think about providing any help, as the first thing needed is details about your software stack. I don't know what Ubuntu product you're asking about, what release etc. (the `apt install` tells me it's **not** a Core product, but that doesn't narrow it down much)
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The installed Driver that works most of the time is nvidia driver-390, as the card is a GeForce GT520. Standard Ubuntu 20.04 build. when I run ubuntu-drivers list I receive the following; WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-390: package has invalid Support Legacyheader, cannot determine support level nvidia-340 nvidia-driver-390, (kernel modules provided by linux-modules-nvidia-390-generic-hwe-20.04)
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Thanks to Michael Prinzinger on the nNvidia forum for this post on the thread, Black Screen when strating display-manager after upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04. with nvidia drivers (Geforce GTX 950M).

He found the reason the GUI does not startup all the time. His fix is as follows, but read the full blog if you need the technical detail.

Thanks to generix I was able to get the Performance Mode (NVIDIA-only) working.

The final step was to have no xorg.conf at all and let ubuntu prime-select handle all xorg configuration via files it autogenerates in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/.

After deleting xorg.conf (and a lot of additional steps I’ve already done up to this point) - NVIDIA drivers are working fine now.

For comparison:

$ inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915
v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M] driver: nvidia v: 455.45.01
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,nvidia,vesa resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 950M/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 455.45.01

$ xrandr --listproviders
Providers: number : 2
Provider 0: id: 0x1b8 cap: 0x1, Source Output crtcs: 0 outputs: 0 
associated providers: 1 name:NVIDIA-0
Provider 1: id: 0x1de cap: 0x6, Sink Output, Source Offload crtcs: 3 
outputs: 3 associated providers: 1 name:modesetting

I hope this helps others also stumbling at this point!

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