Hello, I have a problem installing nvidia drivers on a Dell Inspiron 7000 with GeForce MX250 - blank screen.
I have tried every step here: Black screen after install of nvidia driver ubuntu - #6 by davy.blavette
With intel drivers (prime-select intel) ubuntu loads ok with GUI - native resolution, and can’t connect external displays.
Nvidia drivers 450 are in use. When I do prime-select nvidia and reboot, after a while the ‘drums’ sound from lightdm can be heard, but there is a blank screen, text mode, with a cursor.
Ctrl-alt-Fxx still lets me go to a terminals and do modifications.
Here is some more context, and output of various files and commands I saw requested in other reports appear below:
- using nvidia driver 450 (tried 435 too)
- There are no xorg.conf files anywhere (except one in /usr/share/doc). Contents of /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/* are attached below.
- Secure boot is disabled at BIOS
- Using lightdm, but tried gdm3 and it would crash
- nvidia driver IS loaded (see lsmod below)
- I DO have a blacklist modprobe option (old, nouveau), which I think is irrelevant (see commands below)
Not sure what other info helps debugging this. I am attaching the output of many commands and the nvidia bug report too in a next message.
$ uname -a
Linux gont 4.15.0-112-generic #113-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 9 23:41:39 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9b61 (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 9b41 (rev 02)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 0c)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Device 02f9
00:13.0 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Device 02fc
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 02ed
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Device 02ef
00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 02f0
00:14.5 SD Host controller: Intel Corporation Device 02f5
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device 02e8
00:15.1 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device 02e9
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 02e0
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 02d3
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 02bc (rev f0)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 02b0 (rev f0)
00:1d.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 02b4 (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0284
00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Device 02c8
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 02a3
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Device 02a4
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge 2C 2018] (rev 06)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge 2C 2018] (rev 06)
02:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge 2C 2018] (rev 06)
02:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Titan Ridge 2C 2018] (rev 06)
03:00.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 NHI [Titan Ridge 2C 2018] (rev 06)
3b:00.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 USB Controller [Titan Ridge 2C 2018] (rev 06)
3c:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1d13 (rev a1)
3d:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981
$ sudo lsmod | grep nvi
nvidia_uvm 974848 0
nvidia_drm 49152 2
nvidia_modeset 1179648 2 nvidia_drm
nvidia 19632128 60 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
drm_kms_helper 172032 2 nvidia_drm,i915
drm 401408 6 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm,i915
$ sudo lshw -c video
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 02
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:400-3ff memory:6022000000-6022ffffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:4000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
*-display
description: 3D controller
product: NVIDIA Corporation
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:3c:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:174 memory:bb000000-bbffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff memory:a0000000-a1ffffff ioport:3000(size=128)
$ cat /lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-kms.conf
# This file was generated by nvidia-prime
# Set value to 0 to disable modesetting
options nvidia-drm modeset=0
$ cat /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf
Section "OutputClass"
Identifier "nvidia"
MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/xorg"
EndSection
$ nvidia-smi
Wed Aug 12 15:39:18 2020
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 450.57 Driver Version: 450.57 CUDA Version: 11.0 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 GeForce MX250 Off | 00000000:3C:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 38C P8 N/A / N/A | 6MiB / 2002MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1457 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 5MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
$ sudo ubuntu-drivers list
backport-iwlwifi-dkms
nvidia-driver-435
nvidia-driver-440-server
nvidia-driver-440
nvidia-driver-418-server
nvidia-driver-450
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
$ cat /lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf
blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off
$ cat /lib/modprobe.d/nvidia-kms.conf
# This file was generated by nvidia-prime
# Set value to 0 to disable modesetting
options nvidia-drm modeset=0