Recently my Ubuntu has updated the nvidia drivers from 390 to 470.82.00. Probably after this my external monitor is not able to receive the signal from my computer. My laptop has dual gpu, intel + nvidia. The graphics can never pick nvidia gpu as the graphics provider no matter what solution I try. I have tried the following solutions, nothing helped.
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None of the above solutions worked, despite seemingly very close to what I’m encountering.
The following are my system details (output of inxi -Fxxxrz, truncated)
System: Kernel: 5.8.5-050805-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.13 info: xfce4-panel
wm: xfwm4 dm: GDM3 3.36.3, LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Predator PH315-51 v: V1.19 serial: <filter>
Mobo: CFL model: Sienta_CFS v: V1.19 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.19 date: 07/13/2018
Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 34.0 Wh condition: 34.0/48.9 Wh (69%) volts: 16.6/15.2 model: LG PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 36799
Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 900 3: 900 4: 900 5: 900 6: 901 7: 900 8: 900
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
chip ID: 8086:3e9b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nvidia v: 470.82.00
bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c8c
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa alternate: intel
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes
lshw -c display
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:142 memory:a3000000-a3ffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff memory:a0000000-a1ffffff ioport:4000(size=128) memory:a4080000-a40fffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: UHD Graphics 630 (Mobile)
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:140 memory:a2000000-a2ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:5000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
At this point I have uninstalled xserver-xorg-video-intel and magically the external monitor started working great!, but the graphics are still driven by Intel gpu and not nvidia gpu. Because of this applications are still not able to use the power of nvidia gpu.
To give little context, this laptop is a dual boot, on windows 10, the nvidia gpu can be used to render 4k video at 60 fps without issues smooth display.
But when switched to ubuntu, the same video has so much of dropped frames, literally not watchable.
Also the prime-select is in nvidia mode as seen by the below command
sudo prime-select query
nvidia
Ouput of nvidia-smi
nvidia-smi
Mon Nov 15 14:22:28 2021
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.82.00 Driver Version: 470.82.00 CUDA Version: 11.4 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 47C P8 N/A / N/A | 6MiB / 4040MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1200 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
One way I could get the nvidia gpu to render graphics is to create /etc/X11/xorg.conf for nvidia gpu, this I generated with the command nvidia-xconfig. It is well known this is not the right way and in my specific case, the laptop display couldn’t wake up, black screen on boot, I entered cmd prompt and executed startx, that started display on my external monitor, graphics of which were rendered using nvidia gpu.
This I checked with the command glxinfo|egrep "OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer" which showed nvidia gpu as the OpenGL renderer.
So I would really appreciate if somebody can help me get the nvidia gpu to render the grpahics, instead of intel.
I’m not able to upload nvidia-bug-report.log.gz, tried multiple extensions, with no success, can you please suggest how I should upload the bug report? The editor just doesn’t accept my bug report, it there a limit on file size? because I tried uploading a random smaller size file and upload was successful. My bug report size is 300KB.
Thanks for the help in advance!