Support Request: RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU – Display Failure with 580-open Driver on Ubuntu 22.04

Graphics / Linux Linux
,
1

Support Request: RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU – Display Failure with 580-open Driver on Ubuntu 22.04

System details:

  • Laptop: Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H

  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU (PCI ID: 10de:2f58)

  • OS: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (Kernel 6.8.0-83-generic)

  • Driver versions tested:

    • nvidia-driver-575 (working, system stable, Gazebo + PX4 SITL works fine)

    • nvidia-driver-580-open (fails as described below)

Problem description

After upgrading from 575 to 580-open:

  • The system boots to a blank screen (no GUI output).

  • Even in recovery mode, the screen remains blank or drops into a read-only mode with no response.

Kernel driver status

Both NVIDIA and Intel modules load at boot:

lsmod | grep nvidia
lsmod | grep i915

Output confirms nvidia, nvidia_drm, nvidia_modeset, and i915 are present.

lspci -nnk | grep -A3 -E “VGA|3D”
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation [8086:7d67] (rev 06)
Kernel driver in use: i915
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation [10de:2f58] (rev a1)
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
So the kernel does bind the NVIDIA driver.

Despite the kernel module being loaded, the desktop falls back to software rendering:

glxinfo | grep “OpenGL renderer”
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits)

Relevant journalctl snippets when using 580-open:

nvidia 0000:02:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
NVIDIA(G0): Virtual screen size determined to be 640 x 480
NVIDIA(G0): Setting mode “NULL”
NVIDIA(G0): Failed to set the display configuration

This indicates the driver is loaded, but cannot find a display output / CRTC.
The system then falls back to llvmpipe

Steps already attempted

  1. Driver clean reinstall

    • Purged all NVIDIA packages (sudo apt purge 'nvidia*')

    • Reinstalled nvidia-driver-580-open

    • DKMS module successfully built (dkms status: installed).

  2. Secure Boot

    • Disabled in BIOS to rule out signature/module issues.

  3. prime-select modes

    • prime-select on-demand: System boots, but rendering falls back to llvmpipe. Offloading to NVIDIA fails with EGL/DRI2 errors.

    • prime-select nvidia: System fails to boot into GUI (blank screen, “cannot find any crtc or sizes”).

  4. Xorg/Wayland

    • Tried both Wayland and Xorg sessions; same failure with NVIDIA-only mode.

  5. Simulation workloads

    • Gazebo + PX4 SITL (make px4_sitl gz_x500) work correctly under driver 575.

    • With driver 580-open, Gazebo cannot initialize an OpenGL context (falls back to CPU rendering, unusable).

2

Having the same issue (also with RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU) but on Ubuntu 24.04.

Both on Wayland and Xorg.