Comment 25 for bug 1752053

After having the same problem, I dist-upgraded to proposed and can confirm that it fixed it (I did an apt-get purge nividia* before the dist-upgrade then a apt-get install nvidia-384 after the dist-upgrade)/

One thing that this minor bug pointed out to me is that it has become inconvenient in the current strategy to revert to an older Nvidia driver version, as nvidia-384 is now a transitional package that depends on nvidia-390. Even after adding the graphics-driver ppa, it was not trivially possible to downgrade from 390. I understand the intent (upgrade folks to the latest proprietary thing without them needing to take extra action), but I sort of wonder whether the packages should be renamed so they don't match the graphics-driver ppa names, such that we could purge nvidia, then add the ppa, then do e.g. apt-get install nvidia-387 and actually get 387 instead of 390.