I have a Inspiron 7559 laptop, with Nvidia 960M gpu. I installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, then installed nvidia drivers and bumblebee and it ran fine. Recently, I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 ,installed nvidia 390 drivers,and bumblebee doesn’t work. After a bit of googling, I found out that bumblebee doesn’t play with nice with nvidia-390+ drivers. Here’s a link for reference- [url]https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bumblebee/+bug/1758243[/url]
Anyway, I decided to follow the instructions listed here Ubuntu 18.04, Steam and nvidia 390 but I couldn’t get bumblebee to work. I decided to ditch the whole bumblebee thing and to go only with prime-select method of managing graphics. However, when I do prime-select nvidia and reboot, then I run glxspheres I see that it’s still using intel drivers rather than the nvidia one.
I tried a number of things. I purged and reinstalled nvidia and bumblebee several times. I switched back and forth between intel and nvidia several times. I messed around with the grub file but to no avail. No matter what I do, I can’t get the computer to use nvidia graphics.
Currently, my computer doesn’t have any bumblebee. It only has nvidia-415 drivers. Also commands like nvidia-smi shows gpu information, lspci -vnn | grep ‘'’[030[02]]’ lists the GPU, modinfo | nvidia lists a bunch of things, prime-select query lists nvidia. nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (1.03 MB)
Looks like everything is in place, it just doesn’t work.
How did you install the 415 driver, from ppa? Did you uninstall the .run installer using the --uninstall option before?
Don’t use the .run installers, use --uninstall to uninstall them
to the the 10-nvidia.conf file did the trick! The only problem I have is that for certain animations(like the loading animation of the Plasma desktop), it runs too fast with no sort of framelimiting. But as far as I’m concerned, the gpu works as it should. So thank you.
Just giving my 5 cents here. I had very similar issue myself. Previously I had used bumblebee but now I had decided to move to pure Nvidia. Running:
sudo prime-select nvidia
Did nothing. In order to fix this I purged Bumblebee
sudo apt purge bumblebee
This resulted in black screen during boot which was rather confusing. Eventually I figured that X11 was still trying to use Intel as a device for the screen. I noticed that Intel device configuration was still contained in following file: