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gdm3 package

  1. Bug #1705369
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Comment 1 for bug 1705369

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 17.10 boots to black screen when using Nvidia drivers

This is expected :(

From what I read (have not tested myself), the Nvidia driver defaults to disabling KMS support. This means Wayland (and hence GDM now) won't work.

So there are three possible solutions I can think of:

 * Enable Nvidia KMS support by adding nvidia-drm.modeset=1 to your kernel command line. This should make Wayland (and hence GDM) work. It's possibly not the default yet because performance is lower in this mode(?); or

 * Reinstall lightdm and configure it to re-replace gdm. Then make sure you choose to log in to "Ubuntu" and not "Ubuntu on Wayland"; or

 * Configure GDM to use Xorg instead (if that's even possible). Then make sure you choose to log in to "Ubuntu" and not "Ubuntu on Wayland".