I have installed Linux Mint (Cinnamon) on a Dell G3 and I'm having an issue with the NVIDIA driver. Basically with prime-select set to both NVIDIA and on-demand the laptop display will be black with basically a frozen cursor on the top left of the screen, only an external monitor will be detected and display an image. If I set prime-select to Intel then the display on the laptop turns on but the external display does not work. I've tested all versions of the NVIDIA driver available on the driver manager (470, 390, 460 and 495) and they all exhibit the same behavior. Only when I install the Nouveau display drivers both screens are detected at the same time.
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System:
Kernel: 5.4.0-91-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.7 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: G3 3579 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 05K0D2 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.17.0
date: 09/03/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 1.7 Wh condition: 1.7/56.0 Wh (3%) volts: 16.7/15.2
model: BYD DELL 7FHHV88 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 36799
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800
3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e9b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: Dell
driver: nvidia v: 470.86 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c8d
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: nvidia
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.86
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fb9
Device-3: Microdia Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
bus ID: 1-2.3:8 chip ID: 0c45:6340
Device-4: JMTek LLC. type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
bus ID: 1-2.4:10 chip ID: 0c76:161e
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.13.0-22-generic
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel port: 5000 bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:a370
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 53.95 GiB (5.1%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: PC SN520 NVMe WDC 128GB size: 119.24 GiB
speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 serial: <filter> rev: 20240012 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-75Z10T2
size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: 1A03 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 116.38 GiB used: 53.94 GiB (46.4%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 40 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/focal-dell.list
1: deb http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-dell public
2: deb http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-oem public
3: deb http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-somerville public
4: deb http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-somerville-melisa public
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb https://mirror.koddos.net/linuxmint/packages uma main upstream import backport
2: deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/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: 279 Uptime: 12m Memory: 7.63 GiB used: 1.41 GiB (18.5%)
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