Ubuntu – Trouble with Nvidia GPU and Ubuntu 16.04

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I'm trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 on my Lenovo Yoga 710 with a Nvidia Geforce 940M graphics card. I've looked at all the instructions online including adding nomodeset or nouveau.modeset=0 to the linux line after hitting e on the grub menu during boot. I've also tried disabling secure boot.

None of these seem to work, as I'm able to get into the login after doing nouveau.modeset=0 after purging all nvidia drivers from the recovery boot shell. But whenever I install the nvidia drivers and try to reboot, it always freezes, and then I'm back to square one. Can somebody please help?

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To boot I had to edit the linux line on grub with acpi = off nouveau.modeset=0 Then I had to update the kernel to generic 4.7. Things seem to work now.

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I was facing same problem. I use the same GPU. Skylake and gtx960m

Here is how i fixed it.

Disable the secure boot and reboot

update the gl alternatives: run

sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf

choose the nvidia drivers you have. this is what it looks for me:

There are 3 choices for the alternative x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf (providing /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf).

Selection    Path                                       Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/lib/nvidia-375/ld.so.conf              8604      auto mode
  1            /usr/lib/nvidia-375-prime/ld.so.conf        8603      manual mode
  2            /usr/lib/nvidia-375/ld.so.conf              8604      manual mode
  3            /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/ld.so.conf   500       manual mode

Now your nvidia device files should be created in /dev.

In case you are stuck in login-loop, just purge and install nvidia drivers again and login by logging into tty1
```
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*
apt-cache search nvidia 
```
(you will find some versions of drivers - choose one to test install)
```
sudo service lightdm stop
sudo apt-get install nvidia-375 (for example)
sudo service lightdm start
```

Everything works.

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