A few months back I installed Ubuntu for the first time on a new laptop and started getting accustomed to it. After doing the initial setup and installing nvidia drivers for my dedicated gpu I encountered a bug that would cause the drivers to not unload properly once prime-select was switched to intel.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/+bug/1778011
Now as I'm looking at this, and correct me if I'm wrong, the bug seems to be resolved.
Does that mean that I have to install nvidia-390 and that will contain the bugfix or do I need to install a different driver?
Nvidia-396 which seems to be the latest stable driver returns a not found when trying to install from terminal.
Using ubuntu 18.04.01 LTS
Here's the output of inxi -G
Graphics: Card-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620
Card-2: NVIDIA Device 1d12
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@59.98hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 620 (Kabylake GT2)
version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5
I figured out a fix.
While having nvidia-390 installed I couldn't install nvidia-driver-396 as the terminal would just spit out errors that I couldn't fix.
The newest drivers refused to download and install until the point where I ran
sudo apt remove nvidia-390
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
(I also ran sudo apt-get purge bumblebee* since I wasn't sure if that had installed anything related to nvidia)
Once that was done I ran
sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-396
And it worked perfectly. I still can't see the name of my video card in Ubuntu itself, but everything seems to be working just fine.
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