Hi there, I am very new to Linux and I am still learning so any help is much appreciated. I have recently installed the latest NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu Budgie and I thought all was well until I rebooted into a black screen. I am able to access the terminal from that screen by ctlr alt F1 and after …

this looks like a candidate bug report with a long discussion https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/+bug/1752053 It has just been marked as fix released though. People are still reporting black screens post that release. … but as the triager says - if you still ha…

Got it. Will report as a new bug…

Thanks - please drop a link to your new report here. Cheers. Also found another nvidia 390 lightdm bug report that people can monitor: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/+bug/1756226

ok - more advice here to try - people have found success using comment #20 here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/+bug/1756226 Seems to be a consistent failure all round of the 390 series of proprietary drivers from nvidia.

Ok - what I found that works for me (recording this in bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/+bug/1764005 I am using a GTX960M graphics chipset I switched to a TTY (CTRL+ALT+F4) and logged in a TTY Checked and if necessary installed nvidia-prime i.e. su…

I went with the sudo prime-select intel method and have a working system again. What I find strange is that everything (both Intel and Nvidia graphics) work fine under 17.10 I’m on a HP ZBook 15 niels@zbook:~$ lspci | grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen …

@nroetert the very latest from today is that the canonical dev has identified the issue and says it is straightforward to fix. So we are all just waiting for the update to be pushed hopefully very soon.

I saw a lot of Nvidia related updates come in yesterday, but those didn’t help. Guess you are refering to a near future update, hanging on.

My bug report above is detailing the current investigation.

NVIDIA 390 black screen

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fossfreedom April 6, 2018, 8:53am 10

has anyone actually reported this to canonical (launchpad) or nvidia themselves ? link to the bug report?

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