I have tried a number of things, and the closest I've gotten it to working is this configuration:
- nvidia-driver-470 installed via the Driver Manager UI
- /etc/modules fix applied as described in viewtopic.php?p=1895521#p1895521 - I'm not actually sure if this is helping, but it doesn't seem to be hurting
- removed nomodeset from GRUB after it had previously helped me get in with nouveau
- changed nvidia prime setting to "intel" by way of "prime-select intel" from recovery mode
The above has allowed me to get into Mint through the graphical login and have stuff on my screen (hurray), but am presented with the warning "Check your video drivers. Your system is currently running without video hardware acceleration..." I want to enable nvidia graphics.
Now if I try to update to "prime-select nvidia" I am back to the "blank screen" issue I've seen in many threads on this forum. In particular, my boot sequence looks like this
1) POST screen comes and goes
2) GRUB screen shows (I updated my GRUB settings to show the splash screen for 10 seconds)
3) Select Linux Mint 20.2
4) Graphical prompt to decrypt hard drive shows (with Mint logo). I enter the password and hit Enter
5) Brief flash of textual login prompt
6) Black screen
7) Attempt to restart X as I've seen suggested elsewhere with ctrl + alt + backspace.
8 ) Cursor momentarily appears in top-left, but it quickly disappears and it's back to the void
Then if I reboot into recovery mode, run "prime-select intel" and reboot, I can get into Mint with the graphical login fine, but get the hardware acceleration warning mentioned above.
Any help would greatly be appreciated; pertinent details below. Thanks!
Laptop: Dell Precision 5560 - disabled Secure Boot in the BIOS
Linux Mint: 20.2 with full disk encryption
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$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System: Kernel: 5.4.0-89-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.6 wm: muffin 5.0.2
dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Precision 5560 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 075FPW v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.3.2 date: 06/17/2021
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 84.3 Wh condition: 84.3/84.3 Wh (100%) volts: 13.2/11.4 model: SMP DELL 70N2F95 type: Li-poly
serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU: Topology: 8-Core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11800H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: N/A L2 cache: 24.0 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 73728
Speed: 1151 MHz min/max: 800/4600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1083 2: 987 3: 1027 4: 943 5: 1053 6: 1103 7: 802
8: 802 9: 1130 10: 802 11: 1149 12: 801 13: 1107 14: 1091 15: 1173 16: 1097
Graphics: Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: N/A bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:9a60
Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Dell driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1fbc
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: fbdev unloaded: modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1200~77Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 12.0.0 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.0.3 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:43c8
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-89-generic
Network: Device-1: Intel driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 4000 bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:43f0
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 15.77 GiB (3.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Micron model: 2300 NVMe 512GB size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4
serial: <filter> rev: 23000030 scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / size: 466.30 GiB used: 15.56 GiB (3.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1
ID-2: /boot size: 704.5 MiB used: 209.2 MiB (29.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: swap-1 size: 980.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb https://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/linuxmint/packages uma main upstream import backport
2: deb http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub2/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub2/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub2/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info: Processes: 341 Uptime: 24m Memory: 31.09 GiB used: 2.00 GiB (6.4%) Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38
