I recently bought na laptop MSI GE62 6QF (http://www.msi.com/product/notebook/GE62-6QF-Apache-Pro.html) with i7 6700 processor and NVIDIA GTX970M \ Intel 530 graphics.
I have Windows 10 installed but it's just for games, I am generally Linux user, so wanted to install Ubuntu MATE 15.10 on second ssd hard drive. And here the story begins: first I could not even launch the live CD to install it, after some research I added "nomodeset" kernel option in GRUB and was able to sucessfuly install it. After installation I had to use "nomodeset" option to launch it, otherwise it just hangs. But with that option system is very laggy, windows are rendered forever (because nouveau driver id kind of disabled).
So I wanted to install nvidia drivers, first i installed 352 NVIDIA drivers from Additional Drivers menu. After installation and reboot system is very fast but drivers does not work properly:
- I could not get Compiz to work, I checked "glxinfo" command and here is the output:
name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
- The other thing is when I try to launch Nvidia Settings from command line I get:
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". ** Message: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort ** Message: PRIME: is it supported? no
ERROR: nvidia-settings could not find the registry key file. This file should have been installed along with this driver at /usr/share/nvidia/nvidia-application-profiles-key-documentation. The application profiles will continue to work, but values cannot be prepopulated or validated, and will not be listed in the help text. Please see the README for possible values and descriptions. And there are just 2 options in window that is showed "Application profiles" and "nvidia-settings configuration"
I tried everything:
- Installing newer 355 drivers using
apt-get install nvidia-355 nvidia-prime
- Installing newer 4.3 RC7 kernel
- Installing bumblebee
- Trying nvidia-xconfig
- Modifing xorg configuration manually.
- Install other distrubution like Antergos - with similar issues.
- Adding i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 kernel option.
I have no idea to to proceed with that, My /var/log/Xorg.0.log file: http://pastebin.com/e4wLaefT
Please let me know if you have any suggestions what should I check or do.
Thanks in advance.