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Laptop Dell M3520

Graphics card

Nvidia driver

  • NVIDIA GM107GLM [Quadro M620 Mobile]
  • version: 375.66 - nvidia-375
  • recommended nvidia 384: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/123103/en-us
  • newer drivers on ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
    sudo apt-get update
    
  • configure linux kernel source

  • create file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

    blacklist nouveau
    blacklist lbm-nouveau
    alias nouveau off
    alias lbm-nouveau off
    
  • create file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-drm-nomodeset.conf with content

    options nvidia-drm modeset=1
    
  • update initial ramdisk

    sudo update-initramfs -u
    

Nouveau driver

  • Intel Corporation 591b
  • dell_wmi, dell_laptop, nouveau, i915
  • xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - 1.0.14