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  1. Bug #1705369
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 1705369

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corrado venturini (corradoventu) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 17.10 boots to black screen when using Nvidia drivers (on a desktop with an Intel GPU)

I have a similar problem with an intel graphic card
corrado@corrado-HP-aa-p5:~$ inxi -GxxIS
System: Host: corrado-HP-aa-p5 Kernel: 4.12.0-11-generic x86_64
           bits: 64 gcc: 7.1.0
           Desktop: Gnome 3.24.3 (Gtk 3.22.19-0ubuntu1) dm: gdm3
           Distro: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch)
Graphics: Card: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0a16
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.3 )
           drivers: fbdev (unloaded: modesetting,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@76.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 4.0, 256 bits)
           version: 3.3 Mesa 17.2.0-rc4 (compat-v: 3.0) Direct Render: Yes
Info: Processes: 227 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 1133.9/3880.1MB
           Init: systemd v: 234 runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A
           Client: Shell (bash 4.4.121 running in gnome-terminal-) inxi: 2.3.34
corrado@corrado-HP-aa-p5:~$

and problem disappeared changing /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" into GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"
My problem was as follows:
press power button, Grub menu appears, select partition p5 or wait (p5 is default) -> black screen, wait ... nothing happens but system led is on and disk led blinks for 30-40 seconds, press again power button, after few seconds the system led start blinking as in suspend, press power button again, now the logon screen appear. Should i open a different bug?