Hello Everyone, This has been driving me nearly insane for the past several days. Currently, I have the NVIDIA 440 driver installed via Ubuntu’s official graphics-drivers/ppa and apt-get. I ensured that all nvidia-related drivers/libraries were uninstalled, purged and cleaned beforehand (along with…

Please run nvidia-bug-report.sh as root and attach the resulting .gz file to your post. Hovering the mouse over an existing post of yours will reveal a paperclip icon. https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1043347/announcements/attaching-files-to-forum-topics-posts/

I have attached the bug report as requested to the origional post. Additionally, here is some more information: $nvidia-smi Mon Nov 18 17:17:33 2019 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 440.26 Driver Version: 440.26 CUDA Ve…

That seemed to work like a charm. If I may ask, what was the reasoning that lead you to that suggestion? Also, now that I have the GPU working as my primary driver, is there a way I can have Ubuntu run on the Intel HD chip and then specify certain programs (like my CAD software) to use the Nvidia c…

That config was setting a nvidia-only config with illegal paths. What you want is called render offload http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/435.17/README/primerenderoffload.html This requires a very recent xserver with additional patches, I don’t know if Ubuntu provides this yet for 18…

Thanks for the reasoning and the link! It looks like Ubuntu 18 LTS is supported via that ppa, though adding it and doing a sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade doesn’t upgrade the xorg-server package. Any ideas there?

So odd occurance: I just tried to switch to Intel for the first time and upon trying to log back into Ubuntu, I was greeted with a black screen for a moment before being booted back to the log-in screen. Not sure what that is about … Where should I check for error logs?

/var/log/Xorg.0.log /var/log/Xorg.1.log or sudo journalctl -b0 _COMM=gdm-x-session

Ubuntu 18 LTS & NVIDIA 440 | Unable to Make Nvidia the Primary Display Driver

Graphics / Linux Linux

generix November 18, 2019, 10:57pm 4

Please delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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Ubuntu 18 LTS & NVIDIA 440 | Unable to Make Nvidia the Primary Display Driver

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