GTX 675MX fails with blank screen

[Andrew Fischer]

Installing with additional drivers or adding nvidia-driver-390 renders the system unusable.

On restart there are few lines of the usual kernal information then a brief orange flash follwed by black. System is unusable.

Is the GTX 675MX supported by this driver? If not, the option to use this driver should be removed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: nvidia-driver-390 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-20.20-generic 6.2.6
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 25 17:51:25 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-04-23 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Release amd64 (20230418)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-390
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/2017687

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Arjan (iafilius)]

Hi, you might want to have a look at the libnvidia-tls library selection/hack, posten on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/+bug/2016459

That prevented black screen/keyboard lockup for me (but after downgrading kernel to 5.19 to avoid copy vbios error).

[Andrew Fischer (andrew-debbie)]

Thank you for that. I'll have a look. I could also go back to Jammy as my primary OS on this machine.

I'm hoping for a fix in 23.10. I'll start testing the daily builds soon.

 At a minimum the team could disable the nvidia driver for the GTX 675M. The open source driver does what it is supposed to do.

[Arjan (iafilius)]

Looks like it is fixed after latest kernel/nvidia/library updates.
you might want to check it out.