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I have a problem that may sound already heard, but I can't find a proper driver for my Clevo laptop with a GTX970M, using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit uefi, here are the ways I tried:

  • Installed version 346.35 from xorg-edgers ppa, here is what I get: initially seems a normal boot, but after boot logo some coloured pixels appear on the screen then it becomes completely black. I can hear the login page welcome sound, and I can even log in (without seeing what happens underneath) but all I can do is switching to command line and uninstall drivers, then reboot and everything works on integrated graphics.

  • Installing official drivers (346.35) from Nvidia website manually (following the right procedure) leads to a normal boot, login window, I can type my password and log in, then it stuck on this: no desktop and all I can do is repeat the same procedure as the first point and rely upon integrated graphics again.

Luca Anastasio
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  • Can you log in to the guest session? Have you tried rolling back to 340.76 with the xorg-edgers? – Fabby Feb 20 '15 at 11:13
  • Thank you for helping! Guest does the same the as regular user, 340.76 doesn't support gtx970m. – Luca Anastasio Feb 20 '15 at 16:24
  • Luca, as you don't have enough reputation to go in chat: 1/ can you disable the gtx970 in the BIOS or do you have to remove it physically from the machine? 2/ Do you have a system back-up You've been promoted to user type 4! ;-) – Fabby Feb 20 '15 at 16:52
  • No, I can't remove nor disable it. – Luca Anastasio Feb 20 '15 at 17:56
  • There are some problems related to bbswitch with gtx970m. To make it suspend properly take a look at this issue. https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/issues/115 – BernardoGO Mar 26 '16 at 10:00

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The answer is outdated, now the GTX9xx series works fine with the drivers in Ubuntu's repositories.

Anyway, if you want the latest drivers you could try this PPA instead: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Finally solved using this ppa instead of xorg-edger's one:

https://launchpad.net/~mamarley/+archive/ubuntu/nvidia

and installing:

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends nvidia-346 bumblebee-nvidia nvidia-prime nvidia-346-uvm

Luca Anastasio
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