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I have the same Nvidia 960m in an MSI laptop and I use 387.26 which works perfectly for me. This is on 16.04 with the 4.10 kernel.
By the way, kernel 4.13 kills the Nvidia optimus driver completely. I just ended up fixing it all and reverting my kernel. I've been tweeting about it @DorianDotSlash
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root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# ls -al /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:02.0/driver
ls: cannot access '/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:02.0/driver': No such file or directory
root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic#
If we reach a dead-end, I'm going to try a previous release of LUbuntu.
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zeroth404; Hey ..
As dorian7 advises, there are many issues currently with the latest kernels - patching for the vulnerabilities:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam...treAndMeltdown
Note that the nvidia drivers are affected. I worked the same issue on irc #ubuntu, last night, with resolution by installing the 390 version driver from our trusted PPA .
Let's do the same and see what results in your case:
Make sure secure boot is disabled in bios **
reboot the machine so we are booting with any newly installed kernel.Code:sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade
Now we purge the old nvidia driver. activate the PPA and install the 390 version driver:
reboot once more and tell meCode:sudo apt purge nvidia* sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf sudo apt autoremove sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa sudo apt update sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
all looks good now
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UEFI is and has been off.
doesn't look like anything important is coming through.Code:root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# apt full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 irssi libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 15.3 MB/16.0 MB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
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Did 390 work for you? Do you have Nvidia optimus graphics? I put in the PPA and went with a newer 387.34 from 387.26 and it didn't fix my issues. I didn't want to touch 390 yet because it's very early in staging, and optimus is very picky.Originally Posted by Bashing-om
Last edited by dorian7; January 13th, 2018 at 08:51 PM. Reason: type-o
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@dorian7;
Yes, in that instance installing 390 from our PPA did in fact work .. and yes was optimus - make sure there are no driver conflicts and BumbleBee is not a factor.
@zeroth404; UEFI should be active IF you installed the operating system in EFI mode, but secure boot ( different !) should be disabled to allow the installation of additional trusted software ( nvidia) .
continue on to the "autoinstall" and advise of results.
maybe Yes !
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I tried the nvidia PPA and 390 just to see. no solution yet.
I'm gonna try the autoinstall with this version. If that doesn't work I'll purging it, remove the PPA, and reverting to 384 and try the autoinstall again.Code:root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# lsmod | grep vidia -i nvidia_uvm 753664 0 nvidia_drm 40960 0 nvidia_modeset 1089536 1 nvidia_drm nvidia 14311424 2 nvidia_modeset,nvidia_uvm drm_kms_helper 167936 2 i915,nvidia_drm drm 356352 4 i915,nvidia_drm,drm_kms_helper ipmi_msghandler 40960 2 nvidia,ipmi_devintf root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 3.866] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for (null): -2 [ 3.867] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. [ 3.874] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# grep WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 3.787] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. [ 3.787] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" does not exist. [ 3.787] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" does not exist. [ 3.787] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" does not exist. [ 3.787] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" does not exist. [ 3.790] (WW) "glamoregl" will not be loaded unless you've specified it to be loaded elsewhere. [ 3.866] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting [ 3.867] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# grep vidia -i /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 3.855] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" [ 3.856] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 390.12 Wed Dec 20 06:08:47 PST 2017 [ 3.856] (==) Matched nvidia as autoconfigured driver 0 [ 3.856] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" [ 3.856] (II) Loading /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so [ 3.860] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" [ 3.866] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 390.12 Wed Dec 20 05:44:24 PST 2017 [ 3.866] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs [ 3.866] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families : [ 3.874] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# dpkg -l | grep -i vidia ii bbswitch-dkms 0.8-4ubuntu1 amd64 Interface for toggling the power on NVIDIA Optimus video cards ii libcuda1-390 390.12-0ubuntu0~gpu17.10.2 amd64 NVIDIA CUDA runtime library rc nvidia-384 384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 384.111 ii nvidia-390 390.12-0ubuntu0~gpu17.10.2 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 390.12 rc nvidia-opencl-icd-384 384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD ii nvidia-opencl-icd-390 390.12-0ubuntu0~gpu17.10.2 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD ii nvidia-prime 0.8.5 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime ii nvidia-settings 390.12-0ubuntu0~gpu17.10.1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic#
I installed without UEFI, so no secure boot.
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no difference with autoinstall 390. purged it, removed PPA, and tried autoinstall of 384
rebooted, then this:Code:root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# ubuntu-drivers autoinstall Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libcuda1-384 nvidia-opencl-icd-384 nvidia-prime nvidia-settings The following NEW packages will be installed: libcuda1-384 nvidia-384 nvidia-opencl-icd-384 nvidia-prime nvidia-settings 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/84.6 MB of archives. After this operation, 362 MB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-384. (Reading database ... 249384 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-384_384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nvidia-384 (384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1) ... Selecting previously unselected package libcuda1-384. Preparing to unpack .../libcuda1-384_384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libcuda1-384 (384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1) ... Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-opencl-icd-384. Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-opencl-icd-384_384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nvidia-opencl-icd-384 (384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1) ... Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-prime. Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-prime_0.8.5_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nvidia-prime (0.8.5) ... Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-settings. Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-settings_384.69-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nvidia-settings (384.69-0ubuntu1) ... Setting up nvidia-prime (0.8.5) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ... Setting up nvidia-settings (384.69-0ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.26-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up nvidia-384 (384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-384/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-384/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_EGL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_egl_conf) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-384/alt_ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-384/alt_ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_EGL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_egl_conf) in auto mode update-alternatives: using /usr/share/nvidia-384/glamor.conf to provide /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/glamoregl.conf (glamor_conf) in auto mode dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty dpkg: error: version '-' has bad syntax: revision number is empty update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) INFO:Enable nvidia-384 DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here Adding system user `nvidia-persistenced' (UID 114) ... Adding new group `nvidia-persistenced' (GID 125) ... Adding new user `nvidia-persistenced' (UID 114) with group `nvidia-persistenced' ... Not creating home directory `/'. Loading new nvidia-384-384.111 DKMS files... Building for 4.13.0-25-generic Building for architecture x86_64 Building initial module for 4.13.0-25-generic Done. nvidia_384: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.13.0-25-generic/updates/dkms/ nvidia_384_modeset.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.13.0-25-generic/updates/dkms/ nvidia_384_drm.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.13.0-25-generic/updates/dkms/ nvidia_384_uvm.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.13.0-25-generic/updates/dkms/ depmod... DKMS: install completed. Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Setting up nvidia-opencl-icd-384 (384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1) ... Setting up libcuda1-384 (384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.26-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.125ubuntu12) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-25-generic root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic#
Code:root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# lsmod | grep vidia -i nvidia_uvm 753664 0 nvidia_drm 40960 0 nvidia_modeset 1089536 1 nvidia_drm nvidia 14311424 2 nvidia_modeset,nvidia_uvm drm_kms_helper 167936 2 i915,nvidia_drm drm 356352 4 i915,nvidia_drm,drm_kms_helper ipmi_msghandler 40960 2 nvidia,ipmi_devintf root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# dpkg -l | grep vidia -i ii bbswitch-dkms 0.8-4ubuntu1 amd64 Interface for toggling the power on NVIDIA Optimus video cards ii libcuda1-384 384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 amd64 NVIDIA CUDA runtime library ii nvidia-384 384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 384.111 ii nvidia-opencl-icd-384 384.111-0ubuntu0.17.10.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD ii nvidia-prime 0.8.5 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime ii nvidia-settings 384.69-0ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 3.846] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for (null): -2 [ 3.847] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. [ 3.854] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# grep WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 3.769] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. [ 3.769] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" does not exist. [ 3.769] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" does not exist. [ 3.769] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" does not exist. [ 3.769] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" does not exist. [ 3.772] (WW) "glamoregl" will not be loaded unless you've specified it to be loaded elsewhere. [ 3.846] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting [ 3.847] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic# grep nvidia /var/log/Xorg.0.log -i [ 3.835] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" [ 3.835] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 390.12 Wed Dec 20 06:08:47 PST 2017 [ 3.835] (==) Matched nvidia as autoconfigured driver 0 [ 3.835] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" [ 3.836] (II) Loading /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so [ 3.840] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" [ 3.846] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 390.12 Wed Dec 20 05:44:24 PST 2017 [ 3.846] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs [ 3.846] (II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families : [ 3.854] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) root@antic-Inspiron-7559:/home/antic#
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I'm thinking I should just install a kernel that is known to support 384.
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Not sure if you'll be able to downgrade just the kernel, since 17.10 was released with kernel 4.13. You may have to install 16.04, and you can then upgrade the kernel up to at least 4.10, which does still work with Nvidia drivers up to nvidia-387.
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