Boot from the Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop DVD, ISO or USB image and run the installer.The downside to not using the HWE kernel is potential lack of support for really recent hardware models, but if you are using such an old GPU in the first place I’m guessing the rest of your machine isn’t particularly bleeding edge either. Here’s how to install the desktop anyway and still get the card running with the Nvidia driver. It appeared that the Ubuntu installer was smart enough to realise I needed the nvidia-340 driver package, but not smart enough to realise that this meant reverting to the original GA kernel version of 5.4 (this is the default in the server version). Ubuntu 20.04 desktop version ships with the hardware enablement (HWE) kernel, which is currently at 5.11.This driver version exists in the Ubuntu Focal repositories ( nvidia-340).
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