I have a dual boot (Ubuntu 18.04.3 and Windows 10) laptop Acer Aspire 7 series, with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (2 GB GDDR5 Dedicated VRAM). Every time I install an NVIDIA driver (because I also want to install Cuda and run some deep learning algorithms), my laptop stops working. It doesn’t stop/freeze immediately after the installation. It stops/freezes after I reboot.
Also, immediately after the installation, I tried to verify that the installation was completed correctly, by typing nvidia-smi in my terminal. I got the error message that “NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver”.
I tried to switch off secure boot and add nomodeset in my kernel parameters, but it wasn’t successful.
I did all the above. During the 5th step, this was printed:
~$ sudo rm /lib/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf
rm: cannot remove ‘/lib/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf’: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove ‘/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf’: No such file or directory
Please reboot to recovery after black screen and create a new nvidia-bug-report.log
If you have internet connection, you can use pastebinit to upload it from console.
I did
~$ sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
to be able to enter my computer.
After that prime-select intel was executed and the report log re-executed. nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (1.17 MB)
Sorry, missed that thread.
According to the logs, on the boot when you created it the xserver was coming up right, looks good. In which state did you create it?
Not sure. Right now, I cannot find the nvidia-bug-report.sh. Probably because of the sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*. So, during when my pc wasn’t functional, I managed to run it and then, after the purge, upload it.