Comment 78 for bug 1705369
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| Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) wrote Re: [Bug 1705369] Re: Ubuntu 17.10 boots to black screen when using Nvidia drivers (on a desktop with an Intel GPU) | #78 |
You can also do all of the commands from the rescue mode.
What is concerning is that this major issue is still left untouched. Is
there anything we can do to help?
On Sun, 5 Nov 2017, 10:05 pm William Haverstock, <email address hidden>
wrote:
> I had the blank screen, no login screen problem.
>
> The computer was otherwise running though.
>
> I ssh-ed from another computer to the problem computer
> to execute the suggested commands.
>
> If on a home network you can login to your router with a
> web browser to get the IP address for your problem computer.
>
> Mine was 192.168.1.3
>
> The following fixed the problem for me.
>
> First I did (without the comment).
>
> sudo apt-get install lightdm # This showed lightdm was installed
>
> Second I did uname -r and found the completion for
> the linux-headers-
>
> I don't know why I didn't use the suggested:
> sudo apt install linux-headers-
>
> Then I did the suggested commands, one after the other:
> sudo apt purge gdm3
> sudo apt purge nvidia*
> sudo apt install linux-headers-
> sudo apt install nvidia-384
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm # Suggested when 1st command ran
> sudo shutdown -r now # Restart
>
> Went to the problem computer, the login screen came up.
>
> The Desktop Environment that was selected was:
> Ubuntu on Xorg(Default)
>
> I was able to login.
>
> My problem computer is at least 10 years old.
>
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> Ubuntu 17.10 boots to black screen when using Nvidia drivers (on a
> desktop with an Intel GPU)
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