I was referred to this forum as the appropriate place to figure out my problem. My laptop runs very unstable with Ubuntu 19.04 with the open source drivers. I switched to the nvidia drivers and now my laptop is solid as a rock. The only problem I am now having is getting my external monitor to work. When I run xrandr I get that the hdmi is disconnected whenever it is plugged in. As well I have changed over to light dm of which I found some people did to get the second monitor to work. Nothing is fixing this problem. Does anyone have any insight on how to allow my second monitor to work with the nvidia proprietary drivers. I am on the version 435 latest drivers.
Still no kernel driver installed. Please run
sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-driver-435
sudo apt install --reinstall linux-headers-5.0.0-32-generic
and post the output of
dkms status
and
sudo dmesg |grep -i secure
afterwards.
why does nvidia not make this cleaner? Everyone and there dog runs a second external monitor on there laptop! Thanks so much for the help though, I really would like to use my external monitor. Linux is still quite frustrating though. Great core, difficult on drivers still.
Please disable secure boot in bios.
Also, please post the output of
dkms status
The problem is, you did too many things.
Installing the nvidia driver on ubuntu normally just is
boot to desktop, start Software & Updates, select nvidia driver, reboot.
No, the external monitor does not work. And yes you are right, The ubuntu installer did provide for a clean install of the driver without command line initially. I actually tried quite a few versions to test this problem. When I revert to the nouveau open source driver I get the second monitor so I know it will work. But when I get the nvidia driver in it does not work. No second monitor.
I will get a new bug report uploaded later on today. Thanks again for all the support.