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[Georgio Mosqueda <georgio@xxxxxxxx>]

So I'm out and about today, and rebooting while disconnected from power
is allowing me to select the nvidia card again. When I get home tonight,
I'll update if the external monitor over HDMI works again. If anyone can
shed some light on why this is happening, especially the bit about
/var/log filling up like it did be greatly appreciated.

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Title:
  Nvidia won't select 14.04 LTS

Status in “nvidia-settings” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Prologue: I did a fresh install of 14.04 and the install was pretty
  rough with artifacts all over hdmi and needing to mouse over
  everything in order to reveal an updated image. Kind of like
  scratching off gift cards or lotto tickets, but with a screen. After a
  day or so everything seemed to work alright save for needing to ~$
  kill -15 -1 twice in order to use the trackpad and mouse properly.
  After working fairly well like this (so long as I didn't reboot) for a
  week, I can't seem to get nvidia working properly today.

  What I expected to happen: I typically work from my laptop ( m11x R3 )
  during the day and hook it up to an external monitor via hdmi at home.
  To conserve battery, I use $ sudo tlp bat and use intel on the go. At
  home I log in, select nvidia, plug in via hdmi & everything runs
  smoothly.

  What actually happened: Today I come home and hdmi won't work, m11x got really hot, and hard drive filled up with 8ish GB each kernlog plus syslog. I deleted kernlog to free up space and reboot in order to open chrome. The following was looped in syslog:
  """
  Apr 22 19:27:45 gb9Box kernel: [   48.032709] ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, while evaluating GPE method [_L1B] (20131115/evgpe-580)
  Apr 22 19:27:45 gb9Box kernel: [   48.032759] ACPI Error: [\_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP.DPLF] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20131115/psargs-359)
  Apr 22 19:27:45 gb9Box kernel: [   48.032780] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L1B] (Node ffff8801d68cd0f0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20131115/psparse-536)
  """
  Please accept this peace offering of supplementary information and dmesg attachment. In return, I'll help out anyway I can at night:

  The BIOS installed is the one recommended from Dell; SMBIOS 2.7

  Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  ~$ sudo prime-select nvidia
  Error: alternatives are not set up properly
  Error: nvidia mode can't be enabled

  nvidia-settings:
    Installed: 331.20-0ubuntu8
    Candidate: 331.20-0ubuntu8
    Version table:
   *** 331.20-0ubuntu8 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ubuntu-drivers-common Version: 1:0.2.91.4
  nvidia-prime Version: 0.6.2

  ~$ dkms status
  bbswitch, 0.7, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed
  nvidia-331, 331.38, 3.13.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: nvidia-settings 331.20-0ubuntu8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Apr 23 00:37:18 2014
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-18 (4 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: nvidia-settings
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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