Laptop: Lenovo Legion Y730 15' with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit)
Specifications:
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz × 12
- Graphics: Intel® HD Graphics (Coffeelake 3x8 GT2)
- Graphics: nVidia GTx 1050ti
Please help - I am at my wit's end. I am new to Ubuntu so I am sure that there is something very simple that I am missing but I cannot seem to figure it out. I cannot seem to get my discrete nvidia GTX 1050ti graphics card to work in 16.04. I recently purchased a Lenovo Legion Y730 laptop that has both an intel graphics card and an nvidia card. No matter what I try, the driver does not seem to be loading/running the card.
I have followed all the instructions I found on this similar post: Cannot get NVIDIA graphics card to work on Ubuntu 18.04
To be specific, I have:
- Purged all nvdia
- Downloaded the ppa
- Installed and tried various drivers including the recommended version
- Blacklisted the nouveau drivers
- Rebooted
- Finally, ensured that secure boot is disabled.
I have tried almost every variation to these steps found in other troubleshooting posts. I have even recently tried a fresh-install to no avail.
I cannot connect to any HDMI monitors (which I desperately need), I cannot even open NVIDIA X Server Settings. When I click on the application, the icon blinks in the side bar then disappears. When I try opening it from the terminal, I get the following:
$nvidia-settings
ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system
Below are some outputs that may be useful for troubleshooting:
$uname -r
4.19.1-041901-generic
$lspci -k |grep -EA2 'VGA|3D'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 3e9b
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 39fc
Kernel driver in use: i915
--
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c8c (rev a1)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 39fc
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau
$lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:3e9b]
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:39fc]
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
$glxinfo|egrep "OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics (Coffeelake 3x8 GT2)
$ sudo lshw -C video
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: 3D controller
product: NVIDIA Corporation
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:62000000-62ffffff memory:50000000-5fffffff memory:60000000-61ffffff ioport:4000(size=128) memory:63000000-6307ffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:400-3ff irq:142 memory:6022000000-6022ffffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:5000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
Above it shows that the display for the nvidia card is "unclaimed" but I am not sure how to remedy this. The drivers seem to be downloaded, and when I check additional drivers, it shows that the nvidia driver is in use. Is there anything that I am missing, or any other threads that I have not been able to track down that shows how to solve this?
If any more information is required please let me know.
