Black screen when booting with proprietary nvidia drivers on MacBook 7,1 13" in EFI mode

[Milan Jansen]

After installing the proprietary nvidia drivers on a 13" MacBook Pro 7,1 with nvidia 320m the screen goes blank right after the splash screen. This only happens when booting in EFI mode.

References:

- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12399367#post12399367
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2093599&highlight=nvidia+blank+efi
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2034334&highlight=nvidia+blank+efi

Let me know if any additional information is required.

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[Edward Donovan (edward.donovan)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

  apport-collect 1088963

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

In this case, there's no info about the version of Ubuntu, or the Nvidia drivers, which will be needed for any possible help. Thanks!

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