Installing drivers: Acer Aspire VN7 592-G - Nvidia GTX 960M + Intel® HD-Grafik 530

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Hello everyone.

I'm relatively new to the linux world but not a computer novice. But I fail to install the Nvidia drivers on my laptop.

Before switching my main machine at home I decided to use my laptop to get into Linux especially RHEL7 (7.4) and because RHEL is one of the supported OS for TheFoundry's Modo (https://www.foundry.com/products/modo/requirements)

Modo's Supported operating systems:
Mac OS X 10.10.x, 10.11.x and 10.12.x
Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 (64-bit only)
Linux 64-bit operating system (RHEL 6.8+ & CentOS 7+)

So installing Linux in general was not the issue. I want to install the Nvidia drivers for better Performance for my DCC applications.
Please correct me if I'm wrong here but as far as I unterstood the nouveau drivers which comes which RHEL7 isn't really optimal for graphical purposes.

So I want to install Nvidia what ever way is possible.

I've checked this solution here "How to disable the Nouveau driver and install the Nvidia driver in RHEL 7 " (https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1155663) and went through the steps.

  1. Acquire the Nvidia driver (http://www.nvidia.com)
  2. Edit Grub2 to blacklist the Nouveau driver
  3. Install your nvidia driver
  4. At this point you will need to rebuild initramfs
  5. Reboot the system

The result in the end Nvidia driver doesn't load I can't boot into the OS and can't access the OS anymore.

I've tried several other solutions decribed for CentOS 7 and Fedora. Same result everytime.

I see the operating system trying to boot and then a splash screen showing a "sad face" that something went wrong and the system wasn't able to solve
this problem. I've formatted my computer now 6 times in the past three days.

Not sure but I think I'm missing something here since my laptop has Hybrid Graphics with the "Nvidia GTX 960M" and the "Intel® HD-Grafik 530". Could that be the reason why the procedure "How to disable the Nouveau driver and install the Nvidia driver in RHEL 7 " (https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1155663) will not work in my case?

I know for a fact that even Windows 10 has issues after initial installation with properly handling the Hybrid Graphics. When I got the laptop I wasn't able to install the Nvidia drivers right away.

I do get some error during the boot screen but nothing related to the nvidia drivers as fas as I could find out from my research.

0.045931 platform MSFT0101:00: failed to claim resource 1
0.045935 acpi MSFT0101:00: platform device creation failed: -16
1.495009 EFI: Problem loading in-kernel X.509 certificate (-129)

(not sure I think that was something during a security update or this line belongs to the error

bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 022554 [ IBUS ]

As far as I could find out the MSFT0101 is something regarding the boot error:
"Error -16 is - device busy" and it's something about the "TPM (Trusted Platform Module), feature which implements cryptographic keys storage, used to improve security for technologies such as bitlocker."

source: (http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/miscellaneous/210471-acpi-platform-device-creation-failed.html)

Any idea what am I missing here or how I can actually install the drivers for the Nvidia and Intel GPU and is Linux capable of switching between those two depending on the application I'm running?

Not giving up to get into Linux and especially RHEL though. I'm going to try other solutions from http://www.giyf.com/

Sunny :)

SM

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