Debian on Acer Predator Helios 300

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hello

I tried to install the proprietary NVIDIA driver on Debian Linux Jessie.

The installer tells me that there is no nvidia card but there is:

marc@debian:~/Downloads$ lspci |grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 3e9b
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)

and if reboot i get the following xorg xserver error:
(the nouveau driver is correctly blacklisted)

[ 93.113] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 93.113] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 390.67 Fri Jun 1 03:10:40 PDT 2018
[ 93.113] (II) LoadModule: “nvidia”
[ 93.113] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 93.113] (II) Module nvidia: vendor=“NVIDIA Corporation”
[ 93.113] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 93.113] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 93.113] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 390.67 Fri Jun 1 02:45:19 PDT 2018
[ 93.113] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[ 93.113] (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 226:0
[ 93.114] (EE) No devices detected.
[ 93.114] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 93.114] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[ 93.114] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 93.114] (EE) Please also check the log file at “/var/log/Xorg.0.log” for additional information.
[ 93.114] (EE)
[ 93.120] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

with kind regards
Marc Landolt

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[url]https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1022670/linux/official-driver-384-59-with-geforce-1050m-doesn-t-work-on-opensuse-tumbleweed-kde/post/5203910/#5203910[/url]
Please run nvidia-bug-report.sh as root and attach the resulting .gz file to your post. Hovering the mouse over an existing post will reveal a paperclip icon.

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My Bugreport file: https://0x8.ch/nvidia/

i tried the Xorg Config from your link but this did not work… the computer starts then it flickers in the console after 5 minutes the flickering stops and i can switch to a working console with Alt-Fx

maybe i should say that it’s a hybrid graphic card Laptop where as far as i know the Laptop Screen is attached to the Intel Coffeelake Graphics and the external HDMI Screen is attached to the NVIDIA Card

With kind regards
Marc Landolt

4

Unfortunately, the log is nearly empty but the kernel version. Since you say coffee lake, you need at least kernel 4.15 and you’re running 4.9.

5

I upgraded to Debian Buster that has 4.16…

The phenomena is still the same. I uploaded again the bug-report file…

https://0x8.ch/nvidia/20180710/

6

The log is still empty but you’re running kernel 4.16 now. The xorg log tell that you have some kind of strange config files maybe in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d so you’re running two screens which doesn’t work.

7

have you a hint how to run two cards with one screen, because the Xorg -configure generated this and i also tried to create a correct config file with nvidia-xconfig --enable-all-gpus

8

Don’t know if there has been a problem with your webserver but now I can read the full log instead of just the kernel version.
One problem is that debian obviously still doen’t ship the current intel firmware:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898267
So you will have to download and copy that manually like the bug report intructs.
The the xorg.conf you’re using doesn’t work.
Use the xorg.conf from here:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1022670/linux/official-driver-384-59-with-geforce-1050m-doesn-t-work-on-opensuse-tumbleweed-kde/post/5203910/#5203910
and create two files optimus.desktop in /etc/xdg/autostart/ and /usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/ containing

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Optimus
Exec=sh -c "xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0; xrandr --auto"
NoDisplay=true
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=DisplayServer
X-GDM-BypassXsession=true