22nd February 2017, 11:36
Hi kdemeoz,
Well, you cannot have both Nouveau and Nvidia driver (your current situation). The reason why I said to reinstall the Nvidia driver is that it can handle the switching of the GPUs much better than Nouveau. But since your system still uses Nouveau, it doesn't matter what prime-select states. So what I would do is:
1. blacklist nouveau as stated before
2. prime-select intel
3. see how it works, if it works
4. if not take out the Nvidia card from the tower and use only intel card
Since we have pretty much confirmed that:
1. changing the kernel has not helped, so better return to the standard one than have upstream which can have other issues
2. nor changing the driver for nvidia card has not helped
3. not plugging out multiple keyboards and mice has not helped
4. changing various kernel parameters has not helped
I'm trying to go further, so we see how the tower works with the intel GPU. Triaging the root cause of crashes such as yours is sometimes very tedious, but what we need to step by step and if the guys at forum stated that 16.04 is impacted by similar crashes when in combination with Nvidia card, we have to consider that possibility
Well, you cannot have both Nouveau and Nvidia driver (your current situation). The reason why I said to reinstall the Nvidia driver is that it can handle the switching of the GPUs much better than Nouveau. But since your system still uses Nouveau, it doesn't matter what prime-select states. So what I would do is:
1. blacklist nouveau as stated before
2. prime-select intel
3. see how it works, if it works
4. if not take out the Nvidia card from the tower and use only intel card
Since we have pretty much confirmed that:
1. changing the kernel has not helped, so better return to the standard one than have upstream which can have other issues
2. nor changing the driver for nvidia card has not helped
3. not plugging out multiple keyboards and mice has not helped
4. changing various kernel parameters has not helped
I'm trying to go further, so we see how the tower works with the intel GPU. Triaging the root cause of crashes such as yours is sometimes very tedious, but what we need to step by step and if the guys at forum stated that 16.04 is impacted by similar crashes when in combination with Nvidia card, we have to consider that possibility