Saturday, March 30, 2019

Ubuntu 14.04 cannot detect GTX 850M nvidia driver after installation



The following are what I did:




  1. sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-lts-utopic libqt5gui5 libgles1-mesa-lts-utopic libgles2-mesa-lts-utopic libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic:i386 libglapi-mesa-lts-utopic:i386 libegl1-mesa-drivers-lts-utopic



Except it reported that it cannot locate dkms.conf, everything goes well.





  1. reboot

  2. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

  3. sudo apt-get update

  4. sudo apt-get install nvidia-346

  5. reboot



After that, I can find an application called "NVIDIA X Server Settings" in my application list, and everything looks normal in it. It can even show the tempature of my GPU.




But sudo lshw -C display still cannot show my nvidia GTX 850M (I have already enabled NVIDIA):



*-display
description: 3D controller
product: GM107M [GeForce GTX 850M]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:55 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f707ffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0

version: 06
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:52 memory:f7400000-f77fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)


EDIT:




I am not sure is there any problem in my question, I think maybe I need describe what I expect in more details. I think if the driver is installed successfully, after I sudo lshw -C display, the "VGA compatible controller" should also be nvidia one, but now it still is Intel Integrated one.



If I am correct, does anyone can tell me what should I do to make the VGA compatible controller to nvidia one. If I am wrong, how could I know whether my naughty GPU is running or not. Thanks a lot!!!



I found in 14.04 the only way to use the nvidia was to turn off the Intel card in the bios. There should be a disable option in there. From there, I suggest doing a re-install of ubuntu (if you have only just installed it) and install the nvidia drivers from there.


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