I have a dell l502x laptop with the infamously screwed up hybrid graphics card system (NVIDIA GT540m and Integrated Intel GC)
I have a freshly installed ubuntustudio 16.4.01 LTS running dual boot with windows 10; After installing the proprietary, tested NVIDIA driver 361- recommended at the 'Additional Drivers' tab, a reboot gives a blank screen with the mouse stuck at the top right corner, and nothing works but a forced reboot via long-pressing the main power button.
I have tried all the different driver versions and all the different PPA repositories (xorg-edgers, graphics-drivers etc), the same issue persists.
The system however reboots successfully if the 'intel' card is selected by the command
sudo prime-select intel when the NVIDIA card is selected
glxgears gives the following error
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual command
lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D' gives
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) Subsystem: Dell 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
Kernel driver in use: i915
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 540M] (rev ff) Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_361
dkms status bbswitch, 0.8, 4.4.0-38-lowlatency, x86_64: installed nvidia-361, 361.42, 4.4.0-38-lowlatency, x86_64: installed
glxinfo | grep OpenGL Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig
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I'm not sure if this is the solution you're looking for. I had a lot of problems with my Nvidia video card too and this is what worked for me.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa sudo apt-get update This will give you additional open source drivers to choose from. Just open up additional drivers and choose the one your video card needs. My video card needed 367.44
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