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Leonardo Petrucci
Asked: 2018-09-15 16:06:22 +0800 CST

Installing Nvidia Drivers / Power Use bug

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A few months back I installed Ubuntu for the first time on a new laptop and started getting accustomed to it. After doing the initial setup and installing nvidia drivers for my dedicated gpu I encountered a bug that would cause the drivers to not unload properly once prime-select was switched to intel.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/+bug/1778011

Now as I'm looking at this, and correct me if I'm wrong, the bug seems to be resolved.

Does that mean that I have to install nvidia-390 and that will contain the bugfix or do I need to install a different driver?

Nvidia-396 which seems to be the latest stable driver returns a not found when trying to install from terminal.

Using ubuntu 18.04.01 LTS

Here's the output of inxi -G

Graphics:  Card-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620
           Card-2: NVIDIA Device 1d12
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
           drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: [email protected]
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Kabylake GT2)
           version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5
drivers nvidia

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I figured out a fix.

    While having nvidia-390 installed I couldn't install nvidia-driver-396 as the terminal would just spit out errors that I couldn't fix.

    The newest drivers refused to download and install until the point where I ran

    sudo apt remove nvidia-390
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

    (I also ran sudo apt-get purge bumblebee* since I wasn't sure if that had installed anything related to nvidia)

    Once that was done I ran

    sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-396

    And it worked perfectly. I still can't see the name of my video card in Ubuntu itself, but everything seems to be working just fine.

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  2. the bug seems to be resolved.

    It looks as though it was resolved but not yet released:

    "I hope we can finally get ubuntu-drivers-common into bionic-proposed now"

    You can try out the version of nvidia-390 he uploaded to the PPA.

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