Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 package

  1. Bug #1752053
  2. Comment #79

Comment 79 for bug 1752053

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Jean-Philippe Vignolo (popopow) wrote :

Having more or less the same bug as anybody here, but with final Bionic 18.04.

I tried what proposed on #29 and #47 => installing from ppa : https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa without success (either 390 or 396 version of drivers) without success

Tried also installing lightdm instead of gdm3 which just get me a dark screen.

Reverted back to Nouveau drivers doing what Ivan did in #78, I managed to do a startx and get into gnome desktop. Then I rebooted, and gdm3 was just fine and managed to login.

But after another reboot I could just access to gdm3 but system seemed hangs after login (fixed cursor in middle of a dark screen). If I play with alt+ctrl+f1 , f2 It turns back to gdm3 login screen. alt+ctrl+f3 gets me to a standard text login.

I managed to properly boot again after doing a sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 but it worked only once.

Finally, out of desperation, I did another sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-396 and now everything is working :) Go figure...

My guess is that removing the old xorg.conf file did the trick for me