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Need help on installing NVIDIA drivers for old GPU.
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This may not be relevant since I have a different gpu and am on Ubuntu, but when I installed proprietary drivers I didn't have display either because I was using a version of the driver that was too recent (whether due to dropped compatibility or a bug I don't know). An older one might work!
On ubuntu you can use the "apt-mark hold" command to keep certain packages from updating.
Eg: sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-kernel-common-470-server