Geforce 920M GPU is not working although it is installed and seems to be read by the system

Hello everybody,

I am trying to use the 920M geforce GPU on my dell Inspiration 15, 5000 series.
I am working on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, I also have windows 10 installed on my device.

I installed the Nvidia-driver-390 as this is the latest driver which supports the 920M GPU.

I will write below the commands I used to check if the GPU is working or not.

sudo prime-select nvidia
Info: the nvidia profile is already set

prime-select query
nvidia

sudo lshw -C display
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: HD Graphics 5500
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:51 memory:f5000000-f5ffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: 3D controller
product: GK208BM [GeForce 920M]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:d000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f707ffff

nvidia-settings
ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded
ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:08:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001299sv00001028sd000006AEbc03sc02i00
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
model : GK208BM [GeForce 920M]
driver : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free recommended
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:06:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v00008086d000008B3sv00008086sd00008470bc02sc80i00
vendor : Intel Corporation
model : Wireless 3160 (Dual Band Wireless AC 3160)
manual_install: True
driver : backport-iwlwifi-dkms - distro free

lspci -k | grep -A 2 -i “VGA”
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500 (rev 09)
Subsystem: Dell HD Graphics 5500
Kernel driver in use: i915

grep 10de /lib/udev/rules.d/*
/lib/udev/rules.d/71-nvidia.rules:SUBSYSTEM==“pci”, ATTRS{vendor}==“0x10de”, DRIVERS==“nvidia”, TAG+=“seat”, TAG+=“master-of-seat”

nvidia-bug-report.log (595.7 KB)

I have attached the nvidia0bug-report and a screen shot showing that the 920M driver is installed and read in the additional devices however, in the system itself the CPU is the one running for graphics.

Also it is important to mention that I can’t lunch the NVIDIA X Server Settings, and it seems that a lot of people has reported the same issue on ubuntu software.

Please note that I am not professional in ubuntu and I would really appreciate to describe the solution in details including the commands if any.

Many thanks,
Mohamed