How to enable NVIDIA?
June 3, 2019 Update
Nvidia needs a working Xorg installation to operate within. As your current Xorg Gnome desktop is broken you can try the Unity Desktop to get nVidia drivers working first.
sudo apt-get install unity-session
sudo apt-get install lightdm
- And using TAB key select lightdm between "gdm3" and "lightdm" choices there, and press ENTER key to go.
I have a GTX 970M but I know this driver also works with the GTX 1060M which is one step above yours:
$ sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
model : GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M]
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
modalias : pci:v000010DEd000013D8sv00001028sd00000708bc03sc02i00
driver : nvidia-384 - distro non-free recommended
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
$ dmesg | grep -i nvidia
[ 1.760813] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 1.760817] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 1.763857] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 1.771538] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 242
[ 1.771720] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007)
[ 1.771858] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 384.130 Wed Mar 21 03:37:26 PDT 2018 (using threaded interrupts)
[ 1.778086] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 384.130 Wed Mar 21 02:59:49 PDT 2018
[ 1.779773] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[ 1.779774] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1
[ 4.866848] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver in 8 mode, major device number 240
[ 5.248695] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input9
[ 8.877159] nvidia-modeset: Allocated GPU:0 (GPU-30fab9bc-fe6f-ec05-e8e6-c151a1a96121) @ PCI:0000:01:00.0
If you need sound turned on for your nVidia HDMI and most manufacturers these days have it powered off, then you need to use this:
- Linux kernel module to toggle Nvidia HDMI audio device on/off on notebooks
Here is someone that has taken the prime-select code and patched it because it wouldn't switch from nvidia to intel. If his patch doesn't help you perhaps he can?
- NVIDIA-PRIME: Cant switch to intel
Your reported symptoms exactly match the case of having an installed Nvidia driver, but logging in with wayland. At the login screen, click on the little gear next to the signin button, and select a non-wayland choice. Proceed to login, and the nvidia-settings should be fully functional.