Black screen with cursor when prime-select nvidia - Ubuntu 20.04 - Dell precision 3581 with NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU (GA107GL-A)

Hi,

When I select the nvidia graphics card using prime-select nvidia; ubuntu 20.04 (clean install) boots into a black screen with a cursor. When I switch back to intel, gdm starts again.

Tested with ubuntu 22.04; no issues there. However, we required 20.04 for our software.

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (258.0 KB)

Error that I am getting (journalctl):

jun 27 20:12:25 ws-230006 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1142]: Fatal server error:
jun 27 20:12:25 ws-230006 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1142]: (EE) Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs        for all framebuffer devices
jun 27 20:12:25 ws-230006 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1142]: (EE)
jun 27 20:12:25 ws-230006 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1142]: (EE)
jun 27 20:12:25 ws-230006 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1142]: Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
jun 27 20:12:25 ws-230006 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1142]:          at http://wiki.x.org
jun 27 20:12:25 ws-230006 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1142]:  for help.
jun 27 20:12:25 ws-230006 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1142]: (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/lib/gdm3/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
jun 27 20:12:25 ws-230006 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1142]: (EE)
jun 27 20:12:25 ws-230006 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1142]: (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
jun 27 20:12:25 ws-230006 /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1140]: Unable to run X server

Any ideas? Thanks!

20.04 kernel does not support last generation intel chips apparently.

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