nvidia

In the last few months, I have had some problems with my desktop computer. It would enter the screensaver and not get out of the mode easily. I was able to get the screen video back by flipping through the monitor input ports (It has three: HDMI 1, HDMI 2 and DisplayPort).

Until a few days ago when the system decided to install a new version of the NVidia driver: v580.126.09. That first crashed the GPU and the output video was gone. I had to reboot the hard way (sudo init 0 took the system mostly down and then given that it did not turn off the computer, hit the power button for 5 seconds).