Comment 12 for bug 1765923

The driver works properly. However, the configuration is what's at issue (therefore an apt problem). The configuration that's forcible enforced in the xorg.conf.d directory doesn't take into account that some devices have dual video cards. My issue was that there is an onboard Intel video chipset and also a NVidia discrete video adapter in my laptop. The kernel detects Intel and NVidia video cards and loads the Intel drivers... When the X-Windows system loads it detects the NVidia video card and attempts to load the X-Server system for it, but the underling modules haven't been loaded into the system and therefore loads the the black screen.

If you go into the xorg.conf.d and modify the 10-nvidia.conf files to add the [Option "PrimaryGPU" "true"] line then it works, but because these files are not configured in the package as configuration files they are overwritten on every update.