I've just recently set up a home PC with Mint 19 MATE on a Mini ITX motherboard with integrated graphics and GT 1030 video card, to be used as a workstation and media center. I've had some experience with Ubuntu in the past, but I'm still quite a newbie.
At first I ran into some big problems after installing the nvidia-390 drivers: the screen would not turn on ("no signal"). I managed to solve this by adding the following line to GRUB:
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nouveau.blacklist=1 quiet splash"
Without this line, at reboot the nouveau drivers would be installed every time. I'm not sure this is an ideal solution.
Now everything seems to work fine, besides some tearing when moving the windows around from time to time.
However, I run into major issues when trying 4k videos playback/stream. The video output is very choppy, while there are no audio issues: this happens both on youtube videos and downloaded videos. I tried Firefox, Chromium and media players such as VLC, mpv and SMPlayer: non of these gives great results (VLC is by far the worst media player, with images remaining still fo 10-20s at the time).
I must add that there are some rare youtube videos that give a much better result, though not yet 100% choppiness-free.
Here are some outputs that may help:
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~$ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: ****-H55N-USB3 Kernel: 4.15.0-34-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
Desktop: MATE 1.20.1 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1) Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: H55N-USB3 v: x.x serial: N/A BIOS: Award v: F5 date: 08/20/2010
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i3 550 (-MT-MCP-) arch: Nehalem rev.5 cache: 4096 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 12798
clock speeds: max: 3192 MHz 1: 1478 MHz 2: 1412 MHz 3: 1401 MHz 4: 1418 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GP108 bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: nvidia (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: 3840x2160@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 1030/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.48 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2 NVIDIA GP108 High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-34-generic
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: ee00 bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (4.6% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: CT500MX500SSD1 size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 458G used: 22G (5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:45C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 175 Uptime: 2:02 Memory: 2022.2/7904.2MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56
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~$ dpkg -l |grep -i nvidia
ii libnvidia-cfg1-390:amd64 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library
ii libnvidia-common-390 390.48-0ubuntu3 all Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries
ii libnvidia-compute-390:amd64 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA libcompute package
ii libnvidia-compute-390:i386 390.48-0ubuntu3 i386 NVIDIA libcompute package
ii libnvidia-decode-390:amd64 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii libnvidia-decode-390:i386 390.48-0ubuntu3 i386 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii libnvidia-encode-390:amd64 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii libnvidia-encode-390:i386 390.48-0ubuntu3 i386 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii libnvidia-fbc1-390:amd64 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii libnvidia-fbc1-390:i386 390.48-0ubuntu3 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii libnvidia-gl-390:amd64 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii libnvidia-gl-390:i386 390.48-0ubuntu3 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii libnvidia-ifr1-390:amd64 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Inband Frame Readback runtime library
ii libnvidia-ifr1-390:i386 390.48-0ubuntu3 i386 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Inband Frame Readback runtime library
ii nvidia-compute-utils-390 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities
ii nvidia-dkms-390 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA DKMS package
ii nvidia-driver-390 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA driver metapackage
ii nvidia-kernel-common-390 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module
ii nvidia-kernel-source-390 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA kernel source package
ii nvidia-prime 0.8.8 all Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-prime-applet 1.0.7 all An applet for NVIDIA Prime
ii nvidia-settings 390.42-0ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-utils-390 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-390 390.48-0ubuntu3 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
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~$ dkms status
nvidia, 390.48, 4.15.0-20-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia, 390.48, 4.15.0-34-generic, x86_64: installed
The two peaks are two different tries, with different players.
I searched in the forum, but I could not find a fully comparable situation being described.
Thanks for the help already!