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ubuntu-drivers-common package

Will not use nvidia drivers, goes back to mesa

Bug #1583148 reported by Doug McMahon on 2016-05-18

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Previously in 16.04 it was almost impossible to use nvidia on a skylake machine though the 358 drivers would work in a fashion.
Now with latest udc it always boots to Intel iGPU (mesa)
previous semi ignored bug - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/+bug/1565516

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubuntu-drivers-common 1:0.4.17.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.39-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed May 18 08:19:31 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-26 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: ubuntu-drivers-common
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote on 2016-05-18:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (20.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (112 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbuntuDriversDebug.txt Edit (6.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote on 2016-05-18:

gpu-manager.log Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain)

gpu-manager log

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