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**Don B. Cilly** · Jan 12, 2020, 11:20 PM

Here, sudo lshw -c display says
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
whereas yours does not mention a driver... but it's still not very informative.

Now inxi tells me a bit more:

Code:

~$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710]
         Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: nvidia (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
         Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
         OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 430.50

What does it say there?

**bishb25** · Jan 13, 2020, 08:29 AM

Thanks for the reply,

inxi -G
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: fbdev,nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,vesa)
Resolution: 1280x1024@77.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 8.0, 256 bits) version: 3.3 Mesa 19.0.8

**Don B. Cilly** · Jan 13, 2020, 09:10 AM

It looks like even tough you "used System Settings>Driver Manager to install nvidia-driver-435" the driver isn't installed - or in use.

I'm afraid I'm quite ignorant of graphics drivers in general, so maybe someone else can suggest the best course to set it.

**bishb25** · Jan 13, 2020, 09:24 AM

Originally posted by Don B. Cilly View Post

It looks like even tough you "used System Settings>Driver Manager to install nvidia-driver-435" the driver isn't installed - or in use.

Yes, I can see the nouveau driver is still in use. I think I saw mention somewhere on the forums about having to disable it. ie: blacklist it.
I remember that Driver Manager was broken in the the early days of 16.04, but I don't remember having to blacklist nouveau. I'll find the instructions and see what happens.

My linux abilities have grown weak. I've been forced to spend too much time in Windows because some of my necessary daily use programs are not cross platform.

Thanks.

**Don B. Cilly** · Jan 13, 2020, 11:19 AM

One thing you could try:
software-properties-kde doesn't have a "drivers" section.
software-properties-gtk does:

So you could try
sudo apt install software-properties-gtk
and see if that helps.

[P.S.] It's incredibly slow, it takes ages but eventually it does the job. It probably recompiles all the kernels in the neighbourhood or something ;·)
If you don't have a conky, open ksysguard and check the CPUsage.

**bishb25** · Jan 13, 2020, 12:40 PM

Thanks for the help.

I couldn't figure it out. I tried blacklisting nouveau and that didn't work. I tried a few other things I found around the internet and none of them worked. I ended up making a bootable flash drive of Kubuntu 18.04 and the display settings appeared to work correctly so I did a fresh install on my hard drive. There must have been some corrupted files or bad settings carried over from the upgrade I tried to do.

lshw -c display
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:28 memory:e3000000-e3ffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e1ffffff ioport:3000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

It all seems to work now out of the box. Driver Manager was automatically set to nvidia-driver-435 after the HDD install.

Thanks for taking the time to help me Don B. Cilly I really appreciate people like you making the linux world a better place.

**Don B. Cilly** · Jan 13, 2020, 01:18 PM

All's well that ends well

**GreyGeek** · Jan 13, 2020, 02:55 PM

I used your lshw command to see what it said about my Focal setup, which installed my Nividia GT650M GPU automatically during the install. It turns out that since I have to GPU's I get two listings. One for my NVidia GT650M and one for my Intel HD3000.

Code:

[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]*-display                  [/COLOR]
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GK107M [GeForce GT 650M]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       [B]configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0[/B]

  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       [B]configuration: driver=i915 latency=0[/B]

[/FONT][FONT=monospace][/FONT]

I suspect that IF I hadn't installed the NVidia 390.132 driver I would only show the i915.

**bishb25** · Jan 13, 2020, 06:34 PM

I used your lshw command to see what it said about my Focal setup, which installed my Nividia GT650M GPU automatically during the install. It turns out that since I have to GPU's I get two listings. One for my NVidia GT650M and one for my Intel HD3000.

I found the lshw command in a different thread. I thought since the output had been asked for a similar problem anyone wanting to help me might want it too.

I also suppose it would show all connected hardware and active drivers. I also found something call Nividia-Prime which should let you actively switch between both graphics cards depending on your needs.

The upgrade had definitely broken something in my previous install. even installing the nvidia drivers using "ubuntu-drivers devices" and "apt" didn't work.

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