Public bug reported:
I am trying to use the nouveau drivers on a recent (today) install of
18.04 on a 2.5yo laptop. Unfortunately the nvidia drivers don't work at
all.
What I am finding is that the sluggishness of the display is comparable
to the case when nouveau drivers are disabled. The only real difference
is in the amount of noise coming from the fan because of a slightly
reduced CPU load due to Xorg.
I don't even know where to start looking into this intelligently, but I
would have expected that the drivers would have gotten to a usable state
in the past 2 1/2 years since I last tried them on this machine.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-20.21~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed May 22 21:05:40 2019
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 [8086:191b] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA
controller])
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer HD Graphics 530 [1558:6540]
NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] [10de:13d8] (rev a1) (prog-if 00
[VGA controller])
Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] [1558:6540]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-22 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 5986:066d Acer, Inc
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0cf3:e300 Atheros Communications, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1c7a:0603 LighTuning Technology Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Notebook P65_P67RGRERA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-20-generic
root=UUID=d6da27fa-5d91-4240-b3c9-c7de06124a36 ro nomodeset quiet nosplash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/27/2016
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.05.13
dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345
dmi.board.name: P65_P67RGRERA
dmi.board.vendor: Notebook
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Notebook
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1.05.13:bd01/27/2016:svnNotebook:pnP65_P67RGRERA:pvrNotApplicable:rvnNotebook:rnP65_P67RGRERA:rvrNotApplicable:cvnNotebook:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.family: Not Applicable
dmi.product.name: P65_P67RGRERA
dmi.product.sku: Not Applicable
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: Notebook
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.95-1~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core N/A
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic performance ubuntu
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Title:
nouveau driver for nvidia is sluggish on GTX970M to the point of
unusability
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