The past 4 weeks I have been 'on the road' and tonight was the first time since then I could hook up to my external monitor.
During these weeks I kept Kubuntu updated and the computer was only run on the Intel video, few times I used Bumblebee to run a 3D program via the nVidia driver, all without issues.
So tonight I started the computer up using the BIOS mode for Discrete Video, meaning running on the nVidia Quadro 1000M card, on this computer the only way to use an external monitor.
Strangely I only got to a very limited screen and Jockey told me no proprietary drivers were installed.
Via Jockey I installed the latest nVidia driver 295.40 but after rebooting I still did not get the use of the nVidia driver.
nvidia-settings told me no nVidia card was available and I should run
to update xorg.conf, this has also failed giving me access to the nVidia driver.
I tried the same on the separate partition that I use for a back-up install and the result was the same, I could not run the nVidia driver.
A few hours later I tried again, this time I did not reboot after installing the driver via Jockey but instead just logged out to restart X and was successful in getting the driver working.
There is still a reminder shown I need to reboot and doing so will again remove access to nVidia...
During these weeks I kept Kubuntu updated and the computer was only run on the Intel video, few times I used Bumblebee to run a 3D program via the nVidia driver, all without issues.
So tonight I started the computer up using the BIOS mode for Discrete Video, meaning running on the nVidia Quadro 1000M card, on this computer the only way to use an external monitor.
Strangely I only got to a very limited screen and Jockey told me no proprietary drivers were installed.
Via Jockey I installed the latest nVidia driver 295.40 but after rebooting I still did not get the use of the nVidia driver.
nvidia-settings told me no nVidia card was available and I should run
sudo nvidia-xconfig
I tried the same on the separate partition that I use for a back-up install and the result was the same, I could not run the nVidia driver.
A few hours later I tried again, this time I did not reboot after installing the driver via Jockey but instead just logged out to restart X and was successful in getting the driver working.
There is still a reminder shown I need to reboot and doing so will again remove access to nVidia...
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