Public bug reported:
Prologue: I did a fresh install of 14.04 and the install was pretty
rough with artifacts all over hdmi and needing to mouse over everything
in order to reveal an updated image. Kind of like scratching off gift
cards or lotto tickets, but with a screen. After a day or so everything
seemed to work alright save for needing to ~$ kill -15 -1 twice in order
to use the trackpad and mouse properly. After working fairly well like
this (so long as I didn't reboot) for a week, I can't seem to get nvidia
working properly today.
What I expected to happen: I typically work from my laptop ( m11x R3 )
during the day and hook it up to an external monitor via hdmi at home.
To conserve battery, I use $ sudo tlp bat and use intel on the go. At
home I log in, select nvidia, plug in via hdmi & everything runs
smoothly.
What actually happened: Today I come home and hdmi won't work, m11x got really
hot, and hard drive filled up with 8ish GB each kernlog plus syslog. I deleted
kernlog to free up space and reboot in order to open chrome. The following was
looped in syslog:
"""
Apr 22 19:27:45 gb9Box kernel: [ 48.032709] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND,
while evaluating GPE method [_L1B] (20131115/evgpe-580)
Apr 22 19:27:45 gb9Box kernel: [ 48.032759] ACPI Error:
[\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.DPLF] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
(20131115/psargs-359)
Apr 22 19:27:45 gb9Box kernel: [ 48.032780] ACPI Error: Method
parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L1B] (Node ffff8801d68cd0f0), AE_NOT_FOUND
(20131115/psparse-536)
"""
Please accept this peace offering of supplementary information and dmesg
attachment. In return, I'll help out anyway I can at night:
The BIOS installed is the one recommended from Dell; SMBIOS 2.7
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
~$ sudo prime-select nvidia
Error: alternatives are not set up properly
Error: nvidia mode can't be enabled
nvidia-settings:
Installed: 331.20-0ubuntu8
Candidate: 331.20-0ubuntu8
Version table:
*** 331.20-0ubuntu8 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ubuntu-drivers-common Version: 1:0.2.91.4
nvidia-prime Version: 0.6.2
~$ dkms status
bbswitch, 0.7, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-331, 331.38, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nvidia-settings 331.20-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Apr 23 00:37:18 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-18 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-settings
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: nvidia-settings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug m11x trusty
** Attachment added: "dmesg"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1311523/+attachment/4093816/+files/dmesg
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