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Wow! That di the trick! I've been struggling with this problem for a long time, and I cannot believe that the solution was that simple. Thank you, Ubname!

Is there anybody that can help me out with this problem?

Thanks for the suggestion, Temujin. The result is:

All right, so here's my problem:

I have a brand new HP Pavilion Power 15-CB084NO laptop with a Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 graphics card, and I’m trying to use an external monitor connected via...

Thanks, TheFu! It works like a dream. I'm using the same login for both flavors.

Thanks! That's what I suspected.

I've already made a backup of all important files to an external HDD, so it should be a simple task.

Hi!

I'm running Ubuntu Mate 18.04 on my laptop. I would like to switch to the regular Ubuntu instead. So my question is:

Is there a way that I can install the regular Ubuntu alongside Mate, or...

I'll try to install the regular Ubuntu then. Could I install it alongside Mate, or do I have to format the hard drive before installing regular Ubuntu?

By the way, do you think that everything would be sorted out if I installed the regular Ubuntu instead of Mate? I really need to get this to work, so I want to find the simplest solution to the...

Bashing-om, thank you very much for all your help. I'll just continue to search the net to see if I can find some solution that will help me.

Well, it's not solved yet. I still have the same problem.

Done and done.

I had some errors for sudo apt update:


Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Get:2 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease [3 302 B]
Hit:3...

So, I followed the tutorial and got the required results.

I also followed your instructions, with the exception of reinstalling "nvidia-driver-396" (singular, not plural).

But the problem still...

Okay, what do you mean "boot back into the Nvidia install bare metal"?

ls -al /etc/modprobe.d/:


ls -al /lib/modprobe.d:


cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:


cat /proc/cmdline:

The result of sudo lshw -C display is


ls -al /etc/X11/Xorg.conf is the same as yours.

ls -al /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/:


lsmod | grep nvidia returns nothing at all.

I have no idea why the development kernel is there. I just made a standard 18.04 Mate installation.

So, I applied the code that you instructed, and after restart the result of dpkg -l | grep...

dpkg -l | grep linux- produces:

By the way, when searching the net, I found the following possible explanation for my problems:



When I did the search, I indeed found that I had lots of lowlatency kernels installed:



I...

Result of the lsmod | grep nvidia:

Nothing happens when I type "lsmod | grep nvidia"

When I seemingly managed to install Nvidia 396, I removed nomodeset. When I did that, I got a much clearer screen. Also, when I enter the Control...

When I ented the bios setup, I can't find any info about the video card at all. I don't know why.

The result of the first command:


The third command:


The fourth:

Bashing-om, do you have any idea how I can fix this?

The result of the first is:


The result of the second is: