[SOLVED] Help installing Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Driver - hP pavilion

[Huckleberry Finn]

Also, you can try installing the correct version again. According to here 418 and higher is required and 430 is suggested for being last long-lived branch.. In case you succeed installing Nvidia driver (which will enable you do intensive things, 3D drawing etc.) then I guess you can select nvidia from vcard menu and use it.. Without it, you can select Nvidia card again but it will be using nouveau driver -can do the job but may not be perfect -

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1142530 ... -o/1144025

(Of course, the installation links there, are for Ubuntu, and no ppa for MX.. So, use MXPI for those versions)

And to make them work together (Bumblebee):
viewtopic.php?f=107&t=47725&hilit=Nouve ... 10#p477218

[benji]

(Of course, the installation links there, are for Ubuntu, and no ppa for MX.. So, use MXPI for those versions)

How do I use MXPI to install Nvidia driver?

Are there any commands that I should run?

pls help me with the commands/steps to do this install....

[Huckleberry Finn]

(Of course, the installation links there, are for Ubuntu, and no ppa for MX.. So, use MXPI for those versions)

How do I use MXPI to install Nvidia driver?

Are there any commands that I should run?

No commands. Just open :

Menu => MX Tools => MX Package Installer

Look at the tabs above.. Both Stable and Test repos ... Type nvidia in the search-box.. check which you want.. hit install ..

[Stevo]

That laptop's BIOS says May 2019, so a newer kernel may support it better than the 2018 vintage 4.19 kernel.

What exact model does it say on the outside or on any stickers on the bottom? I'm not getting hits searching for "84F8"...

[benji]

That laptop's BIOS says May 2019, so a newer kernel may support it better than the 2018 vintage 4.19 kernel.

What exact model does it say on the outside or on any stickers on the bottom? I'm not getting hits searching for "84F8"...

Laptop Model No - HP Pavilion - 15-bc406tx

System board - 84F8 08.11

System BIOS - F.25

Is there any other information that would be helpful pls let me know..

[benji]

I tried installing Nvidia driver in Linux Mint 19.2 version. Was able to install it...

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Graphics:  Device-1: Intel vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           chip ID: 8086:3e9b 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: nvidia v: 435.21 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c8d 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting,nvidia 
           unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 435.21 direct render: Yes 

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Kernel: 4.15.0-54-generic x86_64 bits

I am trying to install Nvidia driver from MX test repo in a live usb environment..

and try different kernels from the MX package Installer in live USB and post updates...

[Stevo]

The GTX 1050 is supported well by the stock 418.74 driver, but that driver won't build on 5.X kernels or above. For that, you need the test repo driver.

What does inxi or Quick System Info say about the Intel GPU on a MX 19 Live USB?--Oh wait, you already did so--OK, your Coffee Lake system is supported by stock MX 19, so you shouldn't need to chase newer kernels or drivers--we just have to figure out what's going wrong with your install.

Mint appears to be using the Nvidia GPU as the display card full-time, with no power savings from GPU switching, so I would expect the laptop to run hotter and have worse battery life in Mint, since the card is always on.

I wonder if that laptop supports Optimus as all, or if it's a BIOS setting.

[Stevo]

We've still never seen the contents of your /var/log/ddm.log after you tried an install with MX Nvidia Installer--you could have recovered that with the live USB session. MX NI does not create any special xorg.conf files for Bumblebee installations, either.

I thought we had va-api working for Intel cards out of the box with VLC already, so you should be able to watch local 4K video files with the Intel GPU doing all the decoding work,as long as they are a codec supported by your card's hardware, such as h.264 or H.265/HEVC. I can do that with an older i5-6200u, and the CPU stays at the lowest speed and only uses 1-2% more, so I know it's working. You should be able to get that working at least, but please start a separate thread if you need help with that.

No current browser supports va-api for streaming video, if that's what you meant, but I know that you can stream those Youtube videos in VLC, mpv, QMPlay2, and some other players that can use va-api, to work around that. Debian did try to add va-api with the latest version of Chromium in Sid last week, but I heard it didn't go well.

[benji]

I have just installed nvidia driver without bumblebee... haven't restarted yet.. so not sure if the install went well..

Attaching the DDM Log.

ddmlog.txt

[Stevo]

Don't you have any material that came with the laptop as to whether it is an Optimus one or not?

Did Mint install the Nvidia drivers out of the box, or did it ask you anything about installing "restricted" or non-free drivers first?

About playing 4K streaming video in a browser--we'll soon have a Chromium browser in our repos, backported from Sid, which also supports hardware-accelerated video--depending on your hardware's support for va-api and the codecs it supports. So it can support 4K streaming video on Intel GPUs now without stressing the CPU.