I recently installed Pop!_OS, and everything seemed fine at first. However, after the initial reboot, my screen resolution was stuck at 480p. Following a suggestion, I uninstalled and reinstalled the NVIDIA drivers with a specific command, which restored my resolution to 2K. But when I turn off my computer and boot it up again, I'm back to 480p. Do I really need to run the command every time I start my PC? I thought Pop!_OS was supposed to support NVIDIA drivers out of the box. I'm using an NVIDIA 4080S with a Ryzen 9 7900X3D processor. What should I do?
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It sounds like your NVIDIA driver isn't loading correctly at startup. Reinstalling it temporarily fixes the issue, but the underlying problem might be that the driver module isn't being loaded automatically. When you're stuck at 480p, you can run `lsmod | grep nvidia` to check if the driver is loaded. Also, taking a look at the kernel logs with `sudo dmesg` might give you some clues. Another option is to add `nomodeset` to the kernel command line in GRUB; this can help in certain cases by delaying driver loading.
That makes sense! I might try adding `nomodeset` if I run into this issue too. Better to have a workaround than to reinstall every time!