Created attachment 128314 [details] dmesg output. First, I suspect this is the same problem plaguing the 970 4GB cards however I have lost track of the progress and can't tell anymore if the 980 4GB was part of this. If this is a duplicate I do apologizing. I run two GPUs and 3 monitors. The GTX 760 I keep in the 1st PCI slot so I can boot up. The GTX 980 has never worked on LinuxMint (Linux version 4.4.0-51 to date). The PC will boot, the monitor plugged into the GTX 980 will power on however only a black screen is displayed (just as many of the 970 4GB stories I've read). Attached is a DMESG log and a xorg.0 log. Line 881 in the dmesg log it picks up the primary card (GTX 760) and everything proceeds smoothly. At line 1067 nouveau picks up the GTX 980 (GM204) there are several errors in the log, but i'm no developer so its meaningless to me. I just thought the line numbers might help someone.
Created attachment 128315 [details] xorg.0.log
My NVidia GTX 980 works on Ubuntu Mate 16.10 (kernel series 4.8) but not on Mint 18.1 (kernel series 4.4).
Kernel 4.4 did not have any acceleration support for GM20x, that support was added in Kernel 4.6, in the presence of the nvidia-supplied firmware. Nothing in your original logs seems wrong to me. Perhaps you never configured offloading properly? (Sometimes the desktop manager will do it for you, depends on ... the desktop manager, version, and, I'm sure, its configuration.) See https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Optimus/ specifically the bit about "using outputs on discrete gpu".
I wont recommend using/keeping the GM204 (GTX 980). It cant ever run with free software: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/15/nvidia_gtx_900_linux_driver_roadbloack/ https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-XDC2017 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-XDC2016-NVIDIA Sell this crappy GM204 card away and go away from nvidia. Nvidia died with the 780ti card. Its the last end-user card that can be used normaly. Everything else is in some countries even a legal problem. Because the manufacturer (nvidia) blocks the users from beeing able to boot the software they want on THEIR hardware - happyly illegal in some countries. Hopefully some layer would sue the heck out of nvidia so that they would have to release the private signing key or close their doors. Blocking the freedom of the users on such way should not be accepted by anyone.
(In reply to caguduzexi from comment #4) > I wont recommend using/keeping the GM204 (GTX 980). It cant ever run with > free software: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/15/ > nvidia_gtx_900_linux_driver_roadbloack/ > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-XDC2017 > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-XDC2016-NVIDIA > > Sell this crappy GM204 card away and go away from nvidia. Nvidia died with > the 780ti card. Its the last end-user card that can be used normaly. > Everything else is in some countries even a legal problem. Because the > manufacturer (nvidia) blocks the users from beeing able to boot the software > they want on THEIR hardware - happyly illegal in some countries. Hopefully > some layer would sue the heck out of nvidia so that they would have to > release the private signing key or close their doors. > Blocking the freedom of the users on such way should not be accepted by > anyone. User banned
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