Black screen Dell XPS 9570, Ubuntu 20.04 - GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]

Graphics / Linux Linux
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I’ve tried all sorts of suggestions from other topics here and the web, but whenever I install the nvidia graphics driver I either get the black screen or the purple screen after login.

I have uninstalled the nvidia-driver-515
sudo apt purge nvidia-driver-515

entered my bios and disabled secureboot (although I did have MOK installed when I ran apt install nvidia-driver-515, so dunno that that is the problem… we should be able to run stuff in secureboot)

Logged back in… and installed from the PPA graphics-drivers found at
deb Index of /graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu focal main

bu running

apt install nvidia-driver-515

which was the one recommended by running

sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001C8Csv00001028sd0000087Cbc03sc02i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
model    : GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]
driver   : nvidia-driver-450-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-510-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-515-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-470 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-418-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-470-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-515 - distro non-free recommended
driver   : nvidia-driver-510 - distro non-free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

rebooted.
After that nvidia-smi reported no driver so I ran
sudo prime-select nvidia
and rebooted… On reboot I got a black screen, so from aother terminal prompt I gathered the nvidia-bug-report and output of nvidia-smi as attached.

Sun Aug 21 09:58:25 2022       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.65.01    Driver Version: 515.65.01    CUDA Version: 11.7     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   49C    P8    N/A /  N/A |     11MiB /  4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      2212      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell                1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3376      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                  7MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      3572      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell                2MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I’m at my wits end. any help appreciated

Cheers

Karl

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Please run nvidia-bug-report.sh as root and attach the resulting nvidia-bug-report.log.gz file to your post.

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nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (340.4 KB)

Thanks for responding generix. I have uploaded the nvidia-bug-report run as root.

Cheers
Karl

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Please delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

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Thank you generix! I was tearing my hair out. This was the problem. Not sure why it was the problem but removing it allowed got rid of the black screen and now I can use the graphics card :-)

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