First, on boot, it will show the BOOT_IMAGE error message.
When shutting down or trying to restart, I will get this error:
nouveau 0000:02:00.0: tmr: stalled at ffffffffffffffff
It appears several times on the screen. The computer requires a hard shutdown with the power button to continue.
While troubleshooting the driver issue, I searched both errors and what I could find on both errors pointed to the nouveau driver with nVidia cards and seemed to be mostly an issue on HP. I also found this guide for installing proprietary drivers:
NVidia Drivers Install Guide
While I'd prefer to avoid proprietary stuff, it looks like that's going to be what's necessary to get this to work with the equipment I have. So I started following the guide, and ran the lspci command, which came back with this:
Querying the graphics hardware also seemed to cause an error, and I got the same message as above stating that 'it looks like a problem occurred,' which appears 3 times. The console will not run any other commands, and everything except the cursor freezes shortly thereafter, requiring a hard shutdown. I'm guessing this is also related to the driver issues.
Section 1.2 of the guide talks about certain lspci outputs. The example isn't specific, but it seems to refer to the VGA controller not being nVidia, but integrated with the Intel hardware. Am I interpreting that correctly? Or is it referring to something more specific in the 2 examples provided? I can't find anything suggesting that I have Optimus and there is no option in the BIOS (that I can find) to disable it even if it is there. The NVidia Optimus guide and the Bumblebee project page referred to in that section haven't been updated in years so I'm wondering if that might be outdated and not applicable to my new hardware. I am hesitant to proceed any further without knowing for sure so I don't end up breaking something.
Also, the guide suggests that the 8/9/200/300 series use the 340 driver, but on the nvidia compatibility page, the GeForce MX250 is listed in the 440 section. If I proceed with this guide, which would be appropriate for the MX250?
Any help or insight is appreciated.
Drivers Keyboard Lenovo
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