Do you have a nVIDIA graphics card? Do you want to help ensure users have a smooth experience if they choose to use the proprietary or open source drivers?
We are looking for committed volunteers to test nVIDIA with proprietary and open source
drivers. The goal of this testing is to catch regressions early in the cycle, and fix bugs before they reach a major audience. It is for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) or Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic), in laptop or PC machines.
If you want to be part of the team you will need:
A computer with a nVIDIA graphics card
A spare partition on that system (Only If you wish to run the install test)
If you don’t have a spare partition you can easily create one.
An Internet connection
The cycle starts at 08/29/2018 and finishes 2 weeks later at 09/12/2018
Later In this post you will find the setting up instructions. Additionally, for testing details instructions and how the QA tracker works, you can visit: QA Tracker details
and follow the detailed instructions.
Thanks for helping to make Ubuntu even better!
== Setting Up Instructions ==
If you wish to test the installation process, we suggest you to have a spare partition, because the program involves fresh installations of Ubuntu. If you don’t have a spare partition, you can create one following this steps: Resize partition instructions. If you don’t want to test the installation process, you should run the test that involves booting a live session.
I know some of you have several systems, but our tracker has some limitations that prevent to provide two results for the same account. To avoid creating too much trouble, just select one of your systems and test ALWAYS with that system.
You have to have an account in Launchpad. We are going to use it to generate data (it will be publicly available). If you don’t have a launchpad account, follow these steps:
This is a QA (Quality Assurance) request. That means that you need to install fresh one of the specified Linux distributions, perform the designated tests and report back the results. You do not reuse your existing Linux installation because you cannot be sure that any result is messed up by some settings here and there.
This driver testing is common among all Ubuntu flavours. They will all benefit in the end. There is indeed a small chance that some bug might be specific to a particular window manager. Those are caught when you do QA testing for your specific Ubuntu flavour, just before a release. Here is the QA page for the testing of Ubuntu 18.04 for individual flavours.
First issue to solve: allow to disable Nvidia audio hdmi output in order to use motherboard audio chipset. Graphic card and motherboard chipset share same module in Ubuntu so I can’t just blacklist the graphic card module.
I have also same problem with ubuntu installing, every time my computer is freezing, so if i edit boot screen with “acpi=off”, in that case i can install ubuntu properly, but the problem is after installation again my computer is freezing. Please kindly help me out.
my Computer is:
core-i7 8th gen clock speed 2.2 ghz
8 gb RAM
128 ssd and 1 TB hard disk
Nvidia graphics GeForce GTX 1050 with intel graphics
OS:Windows 10
HP pavilion gaming series laptop
If option 1 is easier for you, go for it. Then just install the proprietary nv driver by
$ sudo ubunt-drivers autoinstall
This will install nvidia 390 driver on bionic.
Note that you need to do apt update once before ubuntu-drivers starts to work. Note that this
will also blacklist nouveau, so if you choose option 2, you might want to remove duplicated
config file.
@ycheng-twn After installing ubuntu, i goto to additional driver, and see both nvidia 390 and open sourse graphics are there. i select nvidia 390 and reboot, the same problem come. Then i goto recovery mode and enter my profile and blacklist both nvidia and nouveau, but still the same problem come.
Thanks everyone to participate in the testing. Here you can find a summary of the testing efforts: Call for testing summary doc
Feel free to still report bugs if found.
