Cant use gtx970m

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L00K3

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I have recently gotten a laptop with a intel graphics chip and GTX970M running Ubuntu, but if I set the driver for the GTX970M it wont let me login (it comes up with an error and returns to login screen). Im running Ubuntu 15.10 and cant disable intel graphics in bios.
 
Am doing that on a test drive, but this is the second computer nvidia proprietary drivers have caused issues for me and both were mobile graphics with Intel integrated graphics along side the nvidia chipset.
 
Thankyou for the replies but first of I can't install the Nvidia drivers cause that's what causes the issues and secondly I have tried to disable the Intel chip via 2 methods. First method is disabling it in the BIOS but the only setting I could find relevant to disabling the Intel chip is "disable NV gpu scaling" which I don't think will do it along with the second method to enforce disabling the chip in grub but couldn't get it to work.
 
L00K3 said:
Thankyou for the replies but first of I can't install the Nvidia drivers cause that's what causes the issues and secondly I have tried to disable the Intel chip via 2 methods. First method is disabling it in the BIOS but the only setting I could find relevant to disabling the Intel chip is "disable NV gpu scaling" which I don't think will do it along with the second method to enforce disabling the chip in grub but couldn't get it to work.
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Again, are you running the latest driver?
 
I managed to fix it, but I tried using Windows as dual boot and primary but Windows isn't working as it seems to have hundreds of problems. So it is easier to get Ubuntu fixed then Windows at this point. But if anyone has a solution to Windows VM, or a way to run Age Of Empires 3 and Visual Studio 2015 or a similar alternative I would love some advice.

For those with the same issue I managed to get the driver's working by quitting the display manager and using another terminal window which may require video drivers to be blacklisted and then do "sudo apt-get purge Nvidia*" "sudo apt-get purge Nouveau" "sudo chmod +x 'Nvidia Driver Location'" "sudo 'Nvidia Driver Location'"
 
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