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I have a laptop with a GeForce 940MX which I would like to use. Unfortunately installing the official nvidia drivers under "additional drivers" and reverting from wayland to x11 does not do the trick.
If I try to use prime-select nvidia, then under "settings" the graphics option becomes "unknown".
Should I use bumblebee? Is there anyone that successfully activated nvidia settings on ubuntu 17.10?
Thanks!
You need to have both Nvidia proprietary drivers and nvidia-prime to get it working. This can be done by running
sudo apt-get install nvidia-346 nvidia-prime
for Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04.
Then you will have Nvidia X Server Settings in Dash. And there you can find PRIME profiles.
Why did you switch from bumblebee to PRIME???!!!! Is there a serious reason? For me PRIME gives me nothing but problems, screen tearing all over the place and no Vsync in games!!!
I strongly recommend you switch to bumblebee with the nvidia-355, works like a charm for me and many others!!
Best Answer
It seemed that when the NVIDIA installers ask "do you want me to disable secure boot?" and lets you input a password it does it just for a show. It never ACTUALLY disables secure boot. By entering the BIOS, disabling it manually, and rebooting the GPU automagically appears!
Ah, of course this just works only under x11, not under the damned Wayland environment. So first revert to x11, then disable secure boot, then work on NVIDIA.
I have some comments about this, but I think I can be banned for obscenity on this website, so I'll keep my mouth shut.