I have recently installed ubutnu22.04.4 in a dual boot setup with Windows on Dell XPS 16 9640. I didn’t install nvidia drivers during the installation setup and only did minimal setup. I was able to boot and login normally during the first run. I updates the sources and upgraded all the packages.
$ uname -a
Linux loki 6.5.0-35-generic #35~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue May 7 09:00:52 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ uname -r
6.5.0-35-generic
Since the machine has NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU, I decided to install the required drivers.
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7d01 (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7ecc (rev 10)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 7d55 (rev 08)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 7d03 (rev 04)
00:05.0 Multimedia controller: Intel Corporation Device 7d19 (rev 04)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7e4d (rev 20)
00:06.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7ecb (rev 10)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7ec4 (rev 10)
00:07.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7ec5 (rev 10)
00:07.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7ec7 (rev 10)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 7e4c (rev 20)
00:0a.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 7d0d (rev 01)
00:0b.0 Processing accelerators: Intel Corporation Device 7d1d (rev 04)
00:0d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 7ec0 (rev 10)
00:0d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 7ec2 (rev 10)
00:0d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 7ec3 (rev 10)
00:12.0 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Device 7e45 (rev 20)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 7e7d (rev 20)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Device 7e7f (rev 20)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 7e78 (rev 20)
00:15.2 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 7e7a (rev 20)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 7e70 (rev 20)
00:19.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 7e50 (rev 20)
00:19.1 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 7e51 (rev 20)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7e38 (rev 20)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 7e02 (rev 20)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 7e28 (rev 20)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 7e22 (rev 20)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 7e23 (rev 20)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 28a1 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: SK hynix Device 1d59 (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 272b (rev 1a)
ac:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5260 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
$ nvidia-detector
nvidia-driver-545
$ ubuntu-drivers list
nvidia-driver-535, (kernel modules provided by linux-modules-nvidia-535-generic-hwe-22.04)
nvidia-driver-535-server-open, (kernel modules provided by linux-modules-nvidia-535-server-open-generic-hwe-22.04)
nvidia-driver-545, (kernel modules provided by nvidia-dkms-545)
nvidia-driver-535-server, (kernel modules provided by linux-modules-nvidia-535-server-generic-hwe-22.04)
nvidia-driver-545-open, (kernel modules provided by nvidia-dkms-545-open)
nvidia-driver-535-open, (kernel modules provided by linux-modules-nvidia-535-open-generic-hwe-22.04)
Installed drivers using ubuntu-drivers autoinstall command which installs nvidia-driver-535. Post installation before the boot I was able to validate running nvidia-smi
$ nvidia-smi
Wed Jun 5 16:53:37 2024
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 535.171.04 Driver Version: 535.171.04 CUDA Version: 12.2 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 RTX 4050 ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 38C P8 2W / 40W | 0MiB / 6141MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=======================================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Post nvidia driver installation when system rebooted, post grub menu it get stuck on the black screen with _ blinking. I logged into cli by Alt+ctrl+F1/F2/F6 and tried to debug the problem but since I its my first time installing it, I was bit unsure about the next steps. I managed to run nvidia-bug-report and attached the result to this topic.
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (374.5 KB)
Only after purging the installed drivers I was able to boot the machine normally.
Additionally I’ve tried
- Install different versions of drivers(535/545/550) - same result - stuck in black screen.
- Install graphic drivers manually by downloading from Nvidia. - same result - stuck in black screen.
- disable nouveau from by modifying modprobe.d/blacklist / updating the
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nouveau.blacklist=1"in the/etc/default/grub
I am setting this up for the first time so please let me know if I’m making any noobie mistake.
