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I bought this Samsung NP3500EL-X0ACN a while ago. It has an nvidia GPU (according to the sticker on it).
After I have used it in the classroom connected to the overhead projector, it will not shutdown. All I can do is hold the on-off switch for a while to force it to shut down.
If I have not used it with the overhead, it shuts down normally.
I tried CTRL-ALT f2 to open another log in, logged myself in, then sudo shutdown -now
I see:
[9590.157268] nouveau 0000:01:00,0: Xorg failed to idle channel 3 [Xorg:983]
later
watchdog: BUG:soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 23s
This last message repeats, the laptop will not shutdown.
System Settings says I have: Intel® HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2)
Distribution: Debian /Jessie/Stretch/Sid, Linux Mint DE
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From your error message I see you have two VGA cards, the Intel and the NVidia.
Newer distros have a utility which switches between the two VGA cards, depending on the graphic calculations needed. I think this utility is called switcheroo or so.
Ubuntu 16.04 might or might not have included this. It became mainstream around the time Ubuntu 16.04 was released.
Anyway, Intel graphic cards are fast enough for anything except gaming. So if your needs are only office work and Youtube videos you might want to disable the NVidia card. This might also increase you battery life. Chances are you won't even notice anything in graphic performance.
To do this, create /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau with this contents:
Thanks, I will do that, then see how it goes tomorrow in class. I never play games on my computer, so I don't need high end graphics.
My /etc/modprobe.d/ contains 12 files, some of which begin with blacklist, all of which end with .conf
Question: should this file be called blacklist-nouveau.conf?
@JJJCR I cannot do anything if I am in the normal environment, (F7). I close all programs, go to shut down, the little window pops up, ask if I really want to shut down now, I click shutdown. The screen freezes, mouse is gone, the computer is dead, (I cannot then access virtual terminals with alt ctrl F?) but the screen is still on, showing my desktop, although nothing can be used. Only holding the off switch down actually gets the screen to switch off.
Distribution: Debian /Jessie/Stretch/Sid, Linux Mint DE
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Originally Posted by Pedroski
Question: should this file be called blacklist-nouveau.conf?
You can call it what you like. The filename is irrelevant. It should end in .conf, that is all.
If the other .conf files already contain lines which are also in my file, it is best not to include those lines again in the new file you create. It won't break anything, but it is bad practice to have the same blacklist line in two files.
Well, blacklisting nouveau seems to have worked! Even after using the laptop with the overhead projector, it actually shuts down!
I first tried using the proprietary nvidia driver. That also allowed me to shutdown normally after using it with the overhead. However, normally, if I just close the lid, when I open it again, I get a log in screen automatically. Using the proprietary nvidia driver, I just get a black screen, it does not recover from closing the lid and I have to force a shutdown. So I went back to the Ubuntu driver.
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