Comment 197 for bug 1752053

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Kyle Weber (kyew01) wrote : Re: [Bug 1752053] Re: nvidia-390 fails to boot graphical display

I didn’t need to remove GDM3, but installing LightDM (and switching to it) fixed it for me. Well, I should say it was a workaround, anyway...

> On Oct 24, 2018, at 11:56 PM, ccdisle <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Uncommenting "WaylandEnable=false " worked.
>
> Removing gdm3 did not work, I just got redirected to a tty3 login shell.
>
> Thanks again
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> Title:
> nvidia-390 fails to boot graphical display
>
> Status in mesa package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> I'm using Bionic with the new 4.15 kernel. I've been using the
> nvidia-384 driver with no problem for a while. Today I issued "sudo
> apt-get upgrade" and I was prompted to upgrade the nvidia driver to
> the nvidia-390. After installing the driver and rebooting, I was only
> able to boot in to the tty terminal. The graphical display failed to
> boot. I have had similar problems with nvidia driver version 390 with
> Arch Linux and with Open Suse Tumbleweed.
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