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Abdulrahman Amri (amri) wrote : Ubuntu 17.10 boots to black screen when using Nvidia drivers

This bug is very similar to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1559576
which is closed. I have been asked to open a new bug report.

The issue is on Ubuntu 17.10 with gdm3 fully updated as of July 20, 2017. I upgraded to 17.10 from a freshly installed Ubuntu 17.04. I am using gnome-3.24.2.

- Lightdm works
- Nouveau driver works
- Nvidia driver 375.66 (proprietary) does not work
- Nvidia driver 384.47 (open source) does not work (from https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa)
- Nvidia drivers work with Ubuntu Gnome 17.04

I am using Nvidia GTX 1080 and Intel i7-4790K

lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch)
Release: 17.10

apt-cache policy gnome-shell:
gnome-shell:
  Installed: 3.24.2-0ubuntu7
  Candidate: 3.24.2-0ubuntu7
  Version table:
 *** 3.24.2-0ubuntu7 500
        500 http://sa.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

uname -s -r -v -p -i -o:
Linux 4.11.0-11-generic #16-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 12 20:40:19 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux