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So im running ubuntu mate 16.04 on an asus rog 501g. I resently tried to switch to use the closed source nvidia driver from nouveau. After that i expirienced boot issues, so I switched back to the open source driver. Everything seems to be working fine, exept that now my laptop does not resume from suspend (only a black screen). This worked fine before.

Fixes that I have tried:

Purging nvidia

Reinstalling all the graphic drivers

Reinstalling Mate desktop

Upgrading to Linux kernel 4.8

Installing Nvidia driver v.367

Nothing has yet fixed the problem.

Does anyone have another fix or suggestion for this?

Graphix card: Nvidia Geoforce GTX 960m

Update:

Now running the propriatery nvidia-375 driver with linux kernel 4.7. Also installed bumblebee and modified bumblebee.conf. Installed bbswitch. Blender runs with command: optirun blender, but not with primusrun.

Succsesfully installed CUDA. Hybernate works.

Problems that still persist: suspend does not work. External monitor with hdmi does not work. Nvidia-settings is blank

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I have a similar problem. I'm using a MacBook Pro with a Benq24 as an external monitor. After a suspend, the Benq monitor shows a distorted view, with vertical bars through the display. Unplugging and reconnecting the monitor, or changing settings in the Settings>Appearance pane will fix the problem. The only 'permanent' solution I've found is to disable suspend altogether.

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  • I use the same workaround now. The strangest thing to me is that suspend worked fine before I did any changes. I could still try to reinstall Ubuntu mate, but thats not the best option right now.
    – b.wave
    Feb 15, 2017 at 11:57
  • I've just replaced nouveau with the appropriate Nvidia driver, and the problem has gone away. This also fixed flickering at the monitor's native resolution.
    – vandem
    Feb 15, 2017 at 18:04
  • Ok, I am a bit reluctant to try that, because installing the nvidia driver started all my problems. But Ill maby try it anyvay, if no other solution arises. Thanks!
    – b.wave
    Feb 15, 2017 at 23:30
  • I just searched for 'drivers' in the dash, which showed the 'Additional Drivers' panel. Makes it easy to pick a new driver and install.
    – vandem
    Feb 16, 2017 at 5:19
  • Installed the nvidia driver using these commands: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nvidia-364 nvidia-prime still got black screen after suspend.
    – b.wave
    Feb 16, 2017 at 12:11
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Those Nvidia drivers are picky. You not only need to have the kernel, but you also need to have a package called linux-headers-<your exact kernel version>. You'd think it would be a part of the kernel update, but of late I've had issues. Both 4.13.0-38 and 4.13.0-39 gave me grief.

If you install that package and then try installing the NVIDIA drivers using the instructions user "b.wave" suggests, you will be in business. Unbricked me for sure when I ended up with a big mess on Tuesday when the -39 kernel update did not install linux-headers for some strange reason and my video drivers went insane. Got the GUI back after switching to nouveau, but then ended up with a black screen of death on suspend.

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