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I've tried everyway to install drivers for NVIDIA and get it working but my laptop still insist on using Intel Haswell integrated GPU.

Here's a what I've tried so far:

First I've tried to install latest drivers from graphics-driers PPA:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-367

I was hoping that it could get my graphics card to work but it didn't.

Then I downloaded .run file from offical nVidia website but this installer gives me "The distribution-provided pre-install script failed!" error. Still don't know why it gives me such error.

Last thing I tried was after installing nvidia-367:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-prime
sudo prime-select nvidia
reboot

As you can guess, it didn't work either. sudo lshw -C display command gives me following output:

  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 0b
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:43 memory:b5000000-b53fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:6000(size=64)
  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: 3D controller
       product: GM108M [GeForce 840M]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0a:00.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:b3000000-b3ffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff memory:b0000000-b1ffffff ioport:3000(size=128)

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and my graphics card is nVidia GT 840M

emreaydin149
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  • You probably need to disable Secure Boot in BIOS. – Pilot6 Aug 31 '16 at 20:53
  • OMFG, thanks man it worked like a magic. If I was in the same country with you I'd make a car ride in this very night to your home and hug till you poop. Thanks again! (not gay) – emreaydin149 Aug 31 '16 at 21:10
  • Well, I'm working with a similar issue and trying to blacklist the wrong driver, may be this may help you if the issue still stands: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/rescuemode_drivers-blacklisting.html – Juanito Jul 17 '21 at 22:53

2 Answers2

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Secure Boot does not let the nvidia module load.

Disable Secure boot in BIOS and it should be solved.

You can see this question for more information.

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Pilot6
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display UNCLAIMED can also mean a hardware problem. Especially if the problems started without any software updates.

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