Public bug reported: Preamble
I have an Entroware Athena with GeForce GTX 980M GPU. It was running 18.04, and then upgraded to 19.10 where it was running fine. I was on GNOME but due to another unrelated bug I switched to MATE. While away, I think some packages updated on it and when I tried using the machine it was slow, feeling like I was using a VESA driver (very slow framerate on the desktop). I thought it needed an nvidia driver update and reboot, however, I couldn't install the latest nvidia driver. It got into a situation where nvidia-drivers-435 wouldn't install because xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-435 and libnvidia-cfg1-435 were being held back. So I did: sudo apt install nvidia-driver-435 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-435 libnvidia-cfg1-435 When I rebooted, it's still not using the nvidia binary driver. I also noted it doesn't seem to trigger dkms at all. Surely it needs to? (base) alan@mother:~$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver-435 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-435 libnvidia-cfg1-435 --reinstall Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: augeas-lenses chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra g++-7 gcc-8-base:i386 guile-2.0-libs libarmadillo8 libaugeas0 libavcodec-extra57 libavdevice57 libavfilter6 libavformat57 libavresample3 libavutil55 libboost-program-options1.65.1 libcharls1 libcrystalhd3 libcue1 libdouble-conversion1 libenca0 libgeos-3.6.2 libgfortran4 libglew2.0 libgovirt-common libgovirt2 libiptcdata0 liblivemedia62 libllvm7 libllvm8 libllvm8:i386 liblvm2app2.2 liblvm2cmd2.02 libmysqlclient20 libnetcf1 libnfs11 libnvidia-common-390 libnvidia-common-430 libostree-1-1 libplacebo4 libpostproc54 libproj12 libprotobuf-lite10 libpython3.6-dev libstdc++-7-dev libswresample2 libswscale4 libtagc0 libtinfo5:i386 libupnp6 libwayland-client0:i386 libwayland-server0:i386 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 libx264-152 libx265-146 libzip4 net-tools python-idna python-oauth python-zope.interface python3.6-dev schroot-common xserver-xorg-input-all-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-input-libinput-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-input-wacom-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-legacy-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-video-intel-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-video-radeon-hwe-18.04 xserver-xorg-video-vmware-hwe-18.04 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 3 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. Need to get 1,986 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/restricted amd64 libnvidia-cfg1-435 amd64 435.21-0ubuntu2 [69.2 kB] Get:2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/restricted amd64 nvidia-driver-435 amd64 435.21-0ubuntu2 [413 kB] Get:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/restricted amd64 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-435 amd64 435.21-0ubuntu2 [1,504 kB] Fetched 1,986 kB in 0s (85.7 MB/s) (Reading database ... 306958 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libnvidia-cfg1-435_435.21-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libnvidia-cfg1-435:amd64 (435.21-0ubuntu2) over (435.21-0ubuntu2) ... Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-driver-435_435.21-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nvidia-driver-435 (435.21-0ubuntu2) over (435.21-0ubuntu2) ... Preparing to unpack .../xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-435_435.21-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-435 (435.21-0ubuntu2) over (435.21-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libnvidia-cfg1-435:amd64 (435.21-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-435 (435.21-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up nvidia-driver-435 (435.21-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.30-0ubuntu2) ... (base) alan@mother:~$ ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: nvidia-driver-435 435.21-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-23.25-generic 5.3.7 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Sun Nov 17 12:00:29 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-06-19 (150 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210) SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-435 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-435 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug eoan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1852905 Title: nvidia-drivers-435 won't load on GeForce GTX 980M To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-435/+bug/1852905/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
