I have a laptop with hybrid graphics, and I can't get my nvidia card to work with the proprietary drivers.
nvidia drivers installed:
sudo dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii nvidia-361 367.57-0ubuntu3 amd64 Transitional package for nvidia-367
ii nvidia-367 367.57-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 367.57
ii nvidia-opencl-icd-367 367.57-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii nvidia-prime 0.8.4 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 367.35-0ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
Xorg errors:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 5.771] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 5.775] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 5.796] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for (null): -22
lspci output:
01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] [10de:139b] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] [1458:b456]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at df000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_367, nvidia_367_drm
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:
[...]
blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off
alias nvidia nvidia_367
I also noticed that I get issues with nvidia-persistenced on boot:
[FAILED] Failed to start NVIDIA Persistence Daemon.
See 'systemctl status nvidia-persistenced.service' for details.
systemctl status nvidia-persistenced doesn't give me more information, but I noticed that in journalctl -xl I get the following line at some point:
nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced: No such file or directory
Oh and also, I guess the output of lsmod could be useful here:
lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_drm 16384 0
nvidia_modeset 765952 1 nvidia_drm
nvidia 11489280 1 nvidia_modeset
drm 368640 12 i915,nvidia_drm,drm_kms_helper
I am running ubuntu 16.10
Linux cerberus 4.8.0-28-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 11 14:03:52 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I had the same problems on 16.04. With a default install, my machine doesn't work. I got cpu soft lockups all the time, by simply running the lspci command. In order to solve the cpu freezes, I had to install nvidia's proprietary drivers and blacklist nouveau. (even though in the end, the proprietary drivers aren't loaded).
I have really no idea what seems to be the problem here... I really hope you can help me, in fact, I have this machine for almost a year now, and made multiple attempts to solve this issue, unsuccessfully... but didn't have time to dig deeper into this problem. I really need to do some cuda programming, so it starts to be urgent, hence this post =)
Looking forward to your answer!
