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Toshiba Satellite with GTX 950M nouveau drivers problem

Asked by Georgi Mirchev

I have a Toshiba Satellite P50-C-18D with video card Nvidia GTX 950M, and processor Intel i7-6700HQ. So I installed Ubuntu 14.04.03 and Ubuntu 15.10. Problems:
1. Sometimes when I select the install Ubuntu option it freezes at the first screen for loading Ubuntu
2. After installation the first time Ubuntu boots normal. The second time it freezes at loading and then displays the dialog to run in failsafe graphics mode.
3. During boot the nouveau driver prints thousands of errors. - https://dl2.pushbulletusercontent.com/Iyp0hWfnNHflchUIFQtTiWpzzM6CM4We/IMG_20160303_104217.jpg
4. Installing Nvidia drivers leads only to black blank screen with the sound that it has started. After installing 15.10 I got this screen: https://dl2.pushbulletusercontent.com/jtBQCML2wy8qDuFIxLmr84Xcbjx8Ftm2/IMG_20160303_104538.jpg

Things I have tried:
1. Install 14.04.03, 14.04.02, 15.10 - two boots and then failsafe graphics mode
2. Install Nvidia custom driver from Nvidia website. No improvement.
3. Different hacks from stackoverflow. Any working one to fix this?

Any help is appreciated!

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Georgi Mirchev (gmirchev90) said : 		#1

I think I fixed the problem. I followed this tutorial.

1. I removed all nvidia drivers I had installed. I tried with the 355 driver.

sudo apt-get purge nvida-*
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-355 nvidia-prime
sudo service lightdm restart

2. I edited the grub and added nouveau.modeset=0 to the GRUC_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nouveau.modeset=0"
sudo update-grub

3. Reboot
4. On boot the 355 driver is awful. Resolution was 640x480. I opened NVIDIA settings and chose to use the Intel card.
5. 10 reboots later everything is still working

those damn video drivers...

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Georgi Mirchev (gmirchev90) said : 		#2

Link to tutorial http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2301071