Processor: Intel i7-4510U
It's currently using my Intel corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller, but I'm trying to run a game and it doesn't run smooth enough
so I'm trying to activate my Nivida Geforce 840M. I tried this by going to the Driver Manager and selecting the nvidia-384 driver. At the end I get this error:
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Removing libcuda1-384 (384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Removing nvidia-opencl-icd-384 (384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Removing nvidia-384 (384.111-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-384-prime/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-384-prime/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_EGL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_egl_conf) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-384-prime/alt_ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-384-prime/alt_ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_EGL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_egl_conf) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa-egl/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_EGL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_egl_conf) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode
INFO:Disable nvidia-384
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
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update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-32-generic
Warning: No support for locale: en_US.utf8
Selecting previously unselected package libcuda1-340.
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Unpacking libcuda1-340 (340.104-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libjansson4:amd64.
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Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-340.
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Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-settings.
Preparing to unpack .../nvidia-settings_361.42-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
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Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
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Setting up shim-signed (1.32~16.04.1+0.9+1474479173.6c180c6-1ubuntu1+linuxmint1) ...
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Running in non-interactive mode, doing nothing.
--- /var/lib/shim-signed/dkms-list 2018-02-19 01:14:53.536731020 +0100
+++ /var/lib/shim-signed/dkms-list.new 2018-02-19 01:14:53.544730970 +0100
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
/var/lib/dkms
+/var/lib/dkms/bbswitch
/var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper
dpkg: error processing package shim-signed (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up libcuda1-340 (340.104-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Setting up libjansson4:amd64 (2.7-3) ...
Setting up libvdpau1:amd64 (1.1.1-3ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libxnvctrl0 (361.42-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up nvidia-340 (340.104-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-340/ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf (x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia-340/alt_ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf (i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/nvidia-340/glamor.conf to provide /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/glamoregl.conf (glamor_conf) in auto mode
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
INFO:Enable nvidia-340
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here
Adding system user `nvidia-persistenced' (UID 123) ...
Adding new group `nvidia-persistenced' (GID 132) ...
Adding new user `nvidia-persistenced' (UID 123) with group `nvidia-persistenced' ...
Not creating home directory `/'.
Loading new nvidia-340-340.104 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 4.13.0-32-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 4.13.0-32-generic
Done.
nvidia_340:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.13.0-32-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/
nvidia_340_uvm.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.13.0-32-generic/kernel/drivers/video/
depmod....
DKMS: install completed.
Setting up nvidia-opencl-icd-340 (340.104-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
Setting up screen-resolution-extra (0.17.1) ...
Setting up nvidia-settings (361.42-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu10) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.10) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-32-generic
Warning: No support for locale: en_US.utf8
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3.3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
shim-signed
Setting up shim-signed (1.32~16.04.1+0.9+1474479173.6c180c6-1ubuntu1+linuxmint1) ...
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
Running in non-interactive mode, doing nothing.
--- /var/lib/shim-signed/dkms-list 2018-02-19 01:15:40.380477720 +0100
+++ /var/lib/shim-signed/dkms-list.new 2018-02-19 01:15:40.388477684 +0100
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/var/lib/dkms
+/var/lib/dkms/bbswitch
/var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper
+/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-340
dpkg: error processing package shim-signed (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
I googled this already but I don't find a specific solution for the case of an NVIDIA GPU.
I can't use bumblebee and optimus since the PPA doesn't support xenial on linux mint 18.
Is there a way to fix this error with the driver manager, or another workaround to activate my GPU?
Thanks.