- #EVERY NVIDIA DISPLAY DRIVER FAILED TO LOAD DRIVERS#
- #EVERY NVIDIA DISPLAY DRIVER FAILED TO LOAD DRIVER#
#EVERY NVIDIA DISPLAY DRIVER FAILED TO LOAD DRIVER#
When you’re switching from intel to nvidia or the other way around the new driver mechanism runs update-initramfs Whatever you’ve got there, whether you upgraded your distro, or you are on 16.04, you must have a reminiscence of the old drivers. I’am on Ubuntu 18.04 and it is a fresh install. Now, I’m not sure what distro you’re using. They’ve been made to work with what we have at this point. This is why they get the name “nvidia-driver-*” to tell them apart and also why you actually need to reboot you computer.
#EVERY NVIDIA DISPLAY DRIVER FAILED TO LOAD DRIVERS#
More exactly those drivers are made for future versions of the display server that have not landed yet in Ubuntu. There are some new things with nvidia-driver-390+. Is there a problem with nvidia-driver-396?
After deleting nf again and rebooting, I was able to access again. I tried the commands and at first everything ok. When Linux distributions package the driver, they can make stronger guarantees about whether the module will work after an update. run package just put the module into dkms and then continued the installation assuming everything was fine, this mismatch would result in a non-functional X server and the infamous “login loop” on the next reboot. For example, see the recent cases where the module builds but fails to load because the kernel build system doesn’t stamp the module with a new ‘retpoline’ tag. The reason for the test-load step is that there have been a huge number of cases in the past where the module will build fine, but won’t load for any number of reasons. It can’t do that if the old kernel module is still in use by the X server. run installer requires you to stop X is because the first thing it does after building the new kernel module is to test-load it. Even AMD do this with his ugly drivers for Linux…) (This is stupid and should be changed in future releases because it’s awful…, the installer should use dkms like others installers/packages…and should run from a X session even if a X restart is needed. In a normal way, when the nvidia driver is not loaded, nvidia-settings show the prime profiles, and make us able to switch between intel and nvidia GPUs.Īnd, a package is preferable to keep the drivers up to date, because without this, you need to re-install manually your driver from a tty at each minor kernel update, and it’s not really convenient because you need to kill the X server, and use the tty because the nvidia-installer cannot be launched when the X server is running.
I never had any problem like this with the ubuntu packages, and in addition, I use the ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa to keep my drivers up to date, and except with really recent releases (390 - 396) I never had any problem like that. However, is it the ubuntu packaging at fault? Does native nvidia-settings do anything useful when the nvidia card is powered off and the driver is not loaded? Please also try adding directory that contains libnvidia-ml.so to your system PATH. Please make sure that the NVIDIA Display Driver is properly installed and present in your system. NVIDIA-SMI couldn't find libnvidia-ml.so library in your system. I also get this info which can be an issue. $ lspci -nnk | grep '\[03'Ġ0:02.0 VGA compatible controller : Intel Corporation Skylake Integrated Graphics (rev 06)Ġ2:00.0 3D controller : NVIDIA Corporation GM107M (rev ff) My Nvidia graphic card is GeForce GTX 960M. Using terminal I get a message: ERROR: Unable to load info from any available syste When I open nvidia settings by clicking on icon it doesn’t open at all. I can’t run nvidia settings and because of it I can’t switch from Intel graphic card to Nvidia one.