UPDATE:
It worked for a while with 375, I think. Then, it suddenly stopped working today. I've tried purging and reinstalling both 384 and 375, but had no luck. They still give me black screens, and nvidia-detector
still gives me none
.
I've been using CUDA for a while, but I didn't pay too much attention to whether my graphics are rendered by my NVIDIA card.
UPDATE:
I just found out that nvidia-367 was not correctly installed. When I reinstalled it, I begin getting the same problem I've always got: no desktop at all. So, I purged all nvidia drivers (sudo apt purge nvidia-*
) and things were good again.
I thought that it might be the driver is too new, so I tried nvidia-340 from the graphic drivers PPA. This time the desktop did show up, but after I opened nvidia-settings
and set the system to use my NVIDIA graphics card, I get a login loop after I logged out. I troubleshooted my problem according to the instructions given here, but nothing worked. Any driver newer than nvidia-340 gives me a blank screen.
I've checked my boot (UEFI) settings and I did disable secure boot, so that should not be causing any problems. I've done another glxinfo
after I uninstalled all NVIDIA drivers, and it's right here: it looks like Nouveau doesn't even recognize my video card.
I do need to use my NVIDIA card because I do machine learning stuff and need to use CUDA, so I dp need some NVIDIA driver to be installed. My laptop model is Dell Inspiron i7559 and my Linux kernel version is 4.4.0-31-generic, if these matter.
I have installed the nvidia-367 driver successfully, and my desktop does show up (after trying quite a few drivers). However, when I type nvidia-detector
into my terminal, none
is returned. lspci
does correctly lists my graphic card. My NVIDIA graphics card is GeForce GTX 960M.
Update:
I've tried a few drivers, namely nvidia-361, 364 and 370. None of them worked - the best outcome I've got is a login loop (which I could not fix even after searching online), and usually it's a black screen showing up (again, the solutions online and on here just don't work).
glxinfo gives this output: http://paste.ubuntu.com/23316740/, although I personally have no idea what this output means.
And here is what lspci
says:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake Integrated Graphics (rev 06)'
and
02:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev a2)
.
lspci
listed exactly (are there any other graphics cards, for example?) and which drivers you tried, where you got them and what wasn't working when you tried them? Also please post the output of glx_info to a pastebin (i.e. paste.ubuntu.com and add the link to your question. To improve on your question you can edit it and add all the information I asked for.