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The installed OS is Ubuntu 18.04 and all worked fine, including the switching between Intel and Nvidia card through nvidia-settings. At a certain point when I tried to call the nvidia-settings from terminal it said no nvidia driver is installed. I tried to purge all nvidia*, tried to reinstall all, tried 390 drivers too, installed latest nvidia ppa for beta drivers, removed xorg.conf file, but there's no chance to enable the drivers any more. I read that this is a known issue on ubuntu 18.04. Does someone have an idea how to resolve it with simple steps? My problem is that this gaming laptop is 600km from me in hands of my 9 years old son... Thank you very much!
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I am not sure whether you meant this as your problem or something totally different.
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Thast will only get all packages that start with nvidia in the name, but there is also xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-390 and xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-396 and maybe more.
So you would need a
sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*
sudo apt-get purge *nvidia-390
or even just
sudo apt-get purge *nvidia*
Also install ppa-purge,
sudo ppa-purge ppa:whatever/ppa
and some useful commands to debug:
gpu-manager
that will show what it is trying during the boot regarding setting up the gpu, what drivers are loaded, blacklisted and so on
dmesg
gives kernel messages
journalctl -b
all system messages since last boot
inxi -G
will show info about your graphics, GPU, OpenGL driver, kernel modules and so on. Install it with sudo apt install inxi
And
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
will do the same as adding drivers from additional drivers, but you can do it from the commandline