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nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 package

  1. Bug #1752053
  2. Comment #123

Comment 123 for bug 1752053

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Thijs Kaper (thijs-kaper) wrote :

I'm using a Dell m4800, with "NVIDIA GK107GLM Quadro K1100M" (3840x2160 pixels). Symptom; gdm login screen shows normally, but after typing password and hitting enter, I end up on black screen. This is after upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04.

I found a silly workaround (after trying many many other suggestions / driver re-installs), now using nvidia-driver-396 or nvidia-driver-390; create (if not exists) a file /etc/rc.local, with this content:

#!/bin/bash

sleep 1

exit 0

And make it executable: chmod 755 /etc/rc.local

What also worked for me, is start laptop, wait for login screen, and use another machine to ssh into the laptop, and execute "sudo service gdm stop ; sleep 5 ; sudo service gdm start".
After that, I could normally log on.

For me this seems to indicate some sort of timing or initialization issue...