Ubuntu 18.04 stopped working with NVIDIA drivers
You might need to have Direct Rendering Manager Kernel Mode Setting enabled on system boot.
NVIDIA driver's PRIME Synchronization support relies on DRM-KMS, which is disabled by default.
Find more comprehensive information in the discussion on the NVIDIA GPU Unix Graphics forum.
Execute sudo nano /etc/default/grub
and add the parameter nvidia-drm.modeset=1
to the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
. Save the change you've made and run sudo update-grub
.
Restart the Ubuntu operating system, and now everything should work properly, right as expected.
I was able to get it working with the latest Nvidia-418 drivers on a Lenovo W530 with the Nvidia GK107GLM Quadro K2000M:
- Edit the
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
and remove "quiet splash" from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and thensudo update-grub
(that may be similar then addingnvidia-drm.modeset=1
) - Switch to LightDM:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
(necessary so my second monitor was recognized) - Install PPA with latest drivers:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
andsudo apt-get update
- Install latest recommended driver (in my case Nvidia 418):
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall