I was scrolling through my system specs for an unrelated reason. I produced the output via:
sudo lshw -html > specs.html
I noticed my graphics card was displayed in red as opposed to everything else in yellow. Specifically it says:
id: display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency = 0
resources: memory : c0000000-c0ffffff
memory : 90000000-9fffffff
memory : a0000000-a1ffffff
ioport : 2000(size=128)
memory : c1000000-c107ffff
Red apparently means my graphics card is unclaimed which I understand relates to an issue with drivers. When I use the Ubuntu “Additional Drivers” application, it states my computer is using the recommended drivers:
In addition, running dpkg -l|grep -i nvidia returns:
ii libnvidia-cfg1-390:amd64 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library
ii libnvidia-common-390 390.151-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 all Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries
ii libnvidia-compute-390:amd64 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA libcompute package
ii libnvidia-decode-390:amd64 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii libnvidia-encode-390:amd64 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii libnvidia-fbc1-390:amd64 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii libnvidia-gl-390:amd64 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii libnvidia-ifr1-390:amd64 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Inband Frame Readback runtime library
ii linux-modules-nvidia-390-5.15.0-25-generic 5.15.0-25.25 amd64 Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-25
ii linux-modules-nvidia-390-generic-hwe-22.04 5.15.0-25.25 amd64 Extra drivers for nvidia-390 for the generic-hwe-22.04 flavour
ii linux-objects-nvidia-390-5.15.0-25-generic 5.15.0-25.25 amd64 Linux kernel nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-25 (objects)
ii linux-signatures-nvidia-5.15.0-25-generic 5.15.0-25.25 amd64 Linux kernel signatures for nvidia modules for version 5.15.0-25-generic
ii nvidia-compute-utils-390 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities
ii nvidia-driver-390 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA driver metapackage
ii nvidia-kernel-common-390 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module
ii nvidia-kernel-source-390 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA kernel source package
ii nvidia-prime 0.8.17.1 all Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 510.47.03-0ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-utils-390 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii screen-resolution-extra 0.18.2 all Extension for the nvidia-settings control panel
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-390 390.147-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
Since I have installed Ubuntu, I have actually not been able to normally boot my computer. It normally gets stuck at the logo screen indefinitely. I’ve been booting my computer via recovery mode. This has led me to believe I’ve always had issues with my graphics drivers but to be honest I’ve had more pressing issues to dedicate my time to and have just been booting via recovery mode for the last month. But maybe it’s time to address this issue…
Any idea how I can rectify this? Do I just have the wrong drivers installed?
