NVIDIA GeForce MX150

vmsda · 08-10-2019, 06:16 AM

1. Which driver should be installed in Ubuntu 18.04 for subject GPU?

2. Can one install a driver in advance eg. when preparing a full install on a usb3 ssd drive/flash?

Thks.

business_kid · 08-10-2019, 01:11 PM

You can't preinstall a proprietary driver unless it sees the video card.

My advice is to preinstall nouveau, and install proprietary over it if you want to.

vmsda · 08-11-2019, 07:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

You can't preinstall a proprietary driver unless it sees the video card.

My advice is to preinstall nouveau, and install proprietary over it if you want to.

Copying from a recipe I found for graphics drivers installation, I submitted

Code:

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
    sudo apt install nouveau

but got back "E: Unable to locate package nouveau".

Pls tell me where I went wrong. Thks.

teckk · 08-11-2019, 08:11 AM

A few posts on that nvidia chip

http://tipsonubuntu.com/2017/07/25/n...mx150-support/
https://aymanbagabas.com/2018/07/23/...ook-x-pro.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=233902

mrmazda · 08-12-2019, 08:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vmsda

but got back "E: Unable to locate package nouveau".

Pls tell me where I went wrong. Thks.

The upstream default DDX for all non-antique NVidia GPUs is provided by the Xorg server package, not separately. It is named modesetting, and shows up in Xorg.0.log as MODESET(0) or modeset(0). Nothing is required in order for it to be utilized except to not have NVidia's proprietary drivers or any remnants of its installation installed, not have nouveau blacklisted, not have nomodeset or nouveau.modeset=0 included on kernel cmdline, and not have package xserver-xorg.video-nouveau installed. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is old technology created via reverse engineering. MX150 I do not have, but modesetting works fine for all my PCIe NVidia GPU cards.