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It has been about 2 weeks since i upgraded ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04. This brought a bunch of problems (like freezing, black startup screen, login loops), i found other people associate with the NVIDIA driver. I have tried every solution i could find (without any progress) and now it's like not seeing the forest for the trees.

I have an Acer Aspire 7 laptop with NVIDIA GeForce 1050. As far as i know, the proprietary driver 384.111 seemed to work on 17.10, but each time after i upgrade from there, it disapears. I have tried to install this driver, and a few other, but all give the same error:

ERROR: Unable to load the 'nvidia-drm' kernel module

Going from the log, i seem to get the same warning everytime when it's installing 'NVIDIA Acelerated Grahics Driver for Linux-x86_64':

/sbin.ldconfig.real: Warning: ignoring configuration file that cannot be opened: /etc/ld.so/conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_EGL.conf: No such file or directory
/sbin.ldconfig.real: Warning: ignoring configuration file that cannot be opened: /etc/ld.so/conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf: No such file or directory

That is the only lead i have as far as i can think of. How can i go on from this?

cbecker
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  • Try https://askubuntu.com/a/1030901/231142 where the driver install for 18.04 is the last half of the answer. – Terrance May 18 '18 at 18:12
  • While it does seem to install the driver properly, when i enter the command: nvidia-smi, i get the error: NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running. – cbecker May 18 '18 at 20:24
  • Did you reboot after installing the driver? – Terrance May 18 '18 at 20:30
  • Yes, i did. reboot then ran nvidia-smi. – cbecker May 18 '18 at 20:37
  • Make sure that dkms is installed on your system. Also, according to https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1028367/linux/unable-to-load-the-nvidia-drm-kernel-module-on-ubuntu-16-04/ it looks as though the nvidia-drm failing to load might need adding acpi_osi=Linux to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= line in the /etc/default/grub file. – Terrance May 18 '18 at 20:43
  • dkms were already up to date, added the line. Still fails to communicate. – cbecker May 18 '18 at 20:56
  • I am actually out of ideas on this one. My install became a clean install because my upgrade install was a nightmare trying to get stuff fixed. When I clean installed it, the drivers and all that worked after installing them that way. The nvidia-driver-390 and nvidia-driver-396 are for the newest cards they have. One last thing I guess you could try is purging all nvidia drivers sudo apt remove --purge nvidia* before trying to install again. – Terrance May 18 '18 at 21:06
  • I did, many times, have also clean installed numerous times. Well, i have to install 17.10 and then upgrade every time, because i can't use a bootable 18 because it keeps freezing. I don't know if that changes anything even though it shouldn't. Thanks for your troubles anyways. – cbecker May 18 '18 at 21:30
  • You could wait till Canonical releases the first point (18.04.1) before upgrading. That is actually what I am going to do with my systems from now on for the ones I actually care about. The first point release is scheduled for late July 2018. Canonical themselves makes the 18.04.1 upgrade available to 16.04 systems then. I think it is good to let them work out any bugs they might still be having. – Terrance May 18 '18 at 21:32
  • Well, that's not very satisfying, but i believe waiting is for the best. Going to go for 16 now. – cbecker May 19 '18 at 09:27

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