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Kai Yang
Asked: 2020-02-11 11:53:48 +0800 CST

Ubuntu 18.04.4 with nvidia-driver-440 freezing screen

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So I just had quite often random freezing screens with nvidia-driver-440 with ubuntu desktop environment and dkm3 or sddm manager. How should I solve this? It's very disturbing as I can't even get log for this because of the freezing screen.

output of lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display':

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1e81 (rev a1)
    Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device 3183
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia
    Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

I use CUDA 10.2 so only nvidia 440+ can be used... not that I don't want the long-term driver.

nvidia 18.04

1 Answers

  1. You can try reading this answer: How do I install the Nvidia drivers?

    I had the same problem for weeks. Unfortunately, the only way to use Ubuntu for me was to change from the Nvidia driver to Intel. You can do it with: sudo prime-select intel

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