Clevo P650RE Running Ubuntu 16.06 - Stuck NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Hi everyone,

I'm facing a problem with installing a NVIDIA driver on Ubuntu 16.04. I've been reading whelming of forum and blog, although, nothing help me yet.

I'm using a Clevo P650RE laptop, which the bellow configuration:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3GB
Core i7-6700HQ Processor (6M Cache up to 3.50 GHz)
32GB DDR4 2400MHZ Memory

After installation of Ubuntu 16.04, a popup is showed with the follow message: "Installation is complete, You need to restart the computer in order to use the new installation"

Thus, I click on the button "Restart Now", then the laptop get stuck and I'm obligated to hold the button power and force the restart.

When I get the Login Screen and type my password then the Ubuntu gets stuck,then once again I have to hold the power button.

I saw the bellow procedure:

To start Ubuntu into safe mode (Recovery Mode) and remove the NVIDIA driver type at terminal:

$ apt-get remove --purge nvidia*

After it, I could pass the login screen and I got able to use some application such as Firefox, however, when I click on System Settings, then the Ubuntu stuck again and the only way I have is holding the power bottom.

I tried to install the NVIDIA driver ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35.run):
LINUX X64 (AMD64/EM64T) DISPLAY DRIVER
Version: 367.35
Release Date: 2016.7.15
Operating System: Linux 64-bit
Language: English (US)
File Size: 72.1 MB

Unfortunately, it doesn't work as well.

Does someone has an idea for this issue?

Thank you in advanced.

 

Are you running in Hybrid or dGPU mode?

Either way, I recommend installing the Xorg Driver Team PPA from here: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
You'll also want to remove nouveau

Commands are:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-lts-vivid
sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings nvidia-prime nvidia-prime-applet nvidia-367

If you're in Hybrid mode you'll be able to use the Prime applet to swap GPUs. If in dGPU mode it'll just work standalone.

You'll likely have to change your grub settings as well to "nosplash".
Edit (as root) /etc/default/grub and modify the following line to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nosplash"

EDIT: Just forgot, after modifying the grub file make sure you run "sudo update-grub"

 

Hi @Stooj,

It's running as MSHYBRID mode.
The link you shared is broken.

 

Not here..

Besides, you can just use the commands to install the PPA anyway. That link is just the launchpad url.

 

Thank you so much @Stooj.

I did the configuration and now it's working very well.

Cheers

 

I have a similar computer setup, and am having a similar problem. However, I am using debian (stretch). Is there a way that I can make this solution work?
Thanks in advance.

 

@Stooj, you are great!!! Your wisdom has greatly helped me with msi ge72 6qf (Ubuntu 16.04).

 

Running in discrete mode switches off optimus which does tend to help Linux.

 

I had exactly the same problem. The only way that I could run was by putting nomodeset in the grub loader.

After reading this thread, I set the BIOS to discrete mode, and now everything runs great. I didn't need to do any of the steps suggested by stooj.

 

The IGP is disabled in that mode so no optimus to worry about driver wise.