Blank screen after boot NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 on Ubuntu 20.10

Graphics / Linux Linux
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I recently bought a HP OMEN 15-ek1950nd, this has a GeForce RTX 3070 and an intel core i7. I upgraded my kernel to 5.10.32. I tried installing the 460 and 465 drivers but they both do not work.

Here’s a bug log and a kernel log.nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (718.4 KB)

kernel.txt (182.9 KB)

Also very weird, I cannot get a screen using nomodeset and I cannot enter the TTY mode. I have SSH enabled though and can SSH into the system.

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The display is properly detected but the nvidia driver is obviously incapable of driving it. nomodeset doesn’t help because it’s no optimus notebook.
Does this notebook happen to have a 300Hz display?

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Alienware with 300Hz display:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/black-screen-after-install-of-nvidia-driver-ubuntu/109312/153

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It has a 165Hz display.

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Can you check if it works by either

  • using the runfile installer instead of the repo driver (uninstall first)
  • installing 21.04
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Installing 21.04 worked perfectly. I can now use my laptop screen and external screen at full resolution and full refresh rate. I installed the third party apps immediately at the 21.04 installation, this failed on the 20.10 installation (but was an Ubuntu error not related to nvidia).