Linux Driver Issues

[Septemus]

Hopefully I'm not being as dumb as I was with my BIOS question but here we go. System specs

• CPU: R5 1600
• AB350 Gaming K4 (Most updated BIOS, just updated)
• OS: Linux Mint 18.3 (Kernal: 4.10.0-38-generic)

So here's the issue other people have had. I have a GTX 1070 and as the screen shots show the drivers that are availible to me for Linux don't work. Either I have to start the system in recovery mode which removes the purpose of this powerful graphics card (I can't even play 1080p video) or it just ignores it when it starts. I have found threads here, here, here, and here but none of them have found solutions I could use.

Solutions I have tried:

• nomodeset in the Grub(?) pre boot options, I think that is what it is when you open bash before boot. When it rebooted, it simply removed the line when I went back to check.
• Going to Nvidia's website to get known stable drivers. It said the character encoding wasn't working.
• Burning my old graphics card as a sacrifice to the GPU gods. One lightly scorched GPU.

I'm new to Linux but to my knowledge this shouldn't be happening. The video ports on my motherboard don't work due to the specs apparently requiring an A-series CPU to run. Either that or all three were somehow DOA as this is an entirely new Board, RAM, and CPU. Either way, trying to reinstall Linux without the use of my graphics card's ports would be hard. I did my research and I'm willing to try things again if there is more specific results.

 

UPDATE:

Trying the no mode set method results in the message "Failed to start NVidia Persistence Daemon" quite often. This is something I have not seen in other people's issues.

UPDATE 2:

I have also tried getting drivers directly from NVidia here, but I get the error when I near the end of the file. Picture below.

[babadoctor]

do the nomodeset thing, but afterwards you need to do more stuff to keep the line there after a reboot.

 

you need to edit some config file somewhere to make it stay

[babadoctor]

follow this to make nomodeset persistent

https://askubuntu.com/questions/38780/how-do-i-set-nomodeset-after-ive-already-installed-ubuntu/38782#38782 

[babadoctor]

also if you are stuck at a black screen boot into safe mode and run 

sudo apt autoremove nvidia*

[Septemus]

28 minutes ago, babadoctor said:

also if you are stuck at a black screen boot into safe mode and run 

sudo apt autoremove nvidia*

This and above left me at a black screen. Same as before. If you need more info on what happened let me know, but the "nomodeset" method just leaves me at a black screen before I uncrypt my drive.

 

I updated with an error message.

[pipnina]

Usually these driver issues are caused by:

• Driver not loading
• Failed hardware
• Driver not installing properly (i.e. failing to build the kernel module, this is usually caused by the driver not being supported for your kernel version).

I suggest installing inxi, and pasting the results of running "inxi -SGx" here.

 

I am running with a GTX 1070, currently using driver 384 on linux mint, except I'm using kernel 4.13. If running on kernel 4.13 and re-installing the nvidia driver doesn't solve your problem, I am not sure what to suggest. It may be possible a re-install will be necessary.

I only recommend installing drivers through the driver utility, using the terminal & apt (in my experience) has been known to cause issues.

[babadoctor]

On 12/8/2017 at 10:59 PM, Septemus said:

This and above left me at a black screen. Same as before. If you need more info on what happened let me know, but the "nomodeset" method just leaves me at a black screen before I uncrypt my drive.

 

I updated with an error message.

use clean install of ubuntu 16.0.4 and follow nomodeset

 

it works, i did it.