Sorry, that was all formatted when I copied and pasted. Looks like it garbled it all together but all the output is there

└─$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Address sizes: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel Model name: Intel® Core™ i3-3220 CPU @ 3.30GHz CPU family: 6 Model: 58 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 Stepping: 9 CPU(s) scaling MHz: 100% CPU max MHz: 3300.0000 CPU min MHz: 1600.0000 BogoMIPS: 6585.19 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat ps e36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtsc p lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nons top_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt tsc_deadline_tim er xsave avx f16c lahf_lm cpuid_fault epb pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp t pr_shadow flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms xsaveopt dtherm a rat pln pts vnmi md_clear flush_l1d Virtualization features:
Virtualization: VT-x Caches (sum of all):
L1d: 64 KiB (2 instances) L1i: 64 KiB (2 instances) L2: 512 KiB (2 instances) L3: 3 MiB (1 instance) NUMA:
NUMA node(s): 1 NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3 Vulnerabilities:
Gather data sampling: Not affected Itlb multihit: KVM: Mitigation: VMX disabled L1tf: Mitigation; PTE Inversion; VMX conditional cache flushes, SMT vulner able Mds: Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable Meltdown: Mitigation; PTI Mmio stale data: Unknown: No mitigations Reg file data sampling: Not affected Retbleed: Not affected Spec rstack overflow: Not affected Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization Spectre v2: Mitigation; Retpolines; IBPB conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP conditional ; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected; BHI Not affected Srbds: Not affected Tsx async abort: Not affected

OH I get it as far as AI. Its can be very helpful, but its a double edged sword for sure lol. And it can be wrong. So basically here is the problem I’m having as far as I can see. I have the Kali Linux OS and the only driver that will work for this card is apparently the most recent one, I believe the 590. NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-590.48.01.run For some reason, this latest driver is impossible to download and install with the OS from a Linux command line the usual way at least with the Kali system.

My PC is a Gateway DX4870. Its not ancient but its not new. But then like I said, I would be a prime candidate for a video card upgrade right. If I had a new PC I probably wouldn’t need one.

In theory what I think you should be able to do is power down, put the new GEFORCE video card in, boot, and then it should boot into the desktop on your existing old video card since the new one doesn’t have a driver right. Then you would go into a hardware manager, install the driver for the new video card, remove the driver for the old video card, reboot again, and you’re on the NVIDIA. But this new card will not do that. If you boot with the card in, it takes over the system and the old video card does not function. So you just get a black screen, no cursor, nothing. Thats apparently because the card has seized the system, but has no driver to actually function.

But if you try to install the Nvidia driver first without the card, it won’t install it because the card is not there. So its a Catch-22.
Anyway I worked with this for days, finally ended up booting into a live instance of Linux off a USB, and downloading the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-590.48.01.run driver and trying to install it that way.
I got almost to the finish line. At that point after installing it that way, if you plug the monitor into the HDMI port on the new GEFORCE card, you will get a Kali Linux boot screen, so that shows fine. But when you try to boot the OS, you only get as far as “Loading Ramdisk…” and hangs there permanently. You never get into the desktop.

Unfortunately I found that in order to get Blender working again without the card, all of the Nvidia had to be removed, so I had to uninstall everything I had installed and I’m back to square one again. Its sure been difficult :/

I’ve got their GEFORCE 5050 RTX card here and so far its overpriced junk. $200 and the drivers don’t even work I’ve been struggling with it 2 and a half days. It almost broke my PC installation. At least I got my PC working again without it but so far its been an expensive paperweight