Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 package

  1. Bug #1765923
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1765923

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Thomas Friedrichsmeier (tfry) wrote :

Same symptoms(*) here after a fresh upgrade to 18.04.

Tried installing gdm, as suggested above, and also adding "xrandr" as suggested, here: https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?316354-SDDM-shows-black-screen-with-Nvidia . Neither made a difference for me.

However, the problem finally went away after switching to the nouveau driver. (And I have no recollection of ever asking for the proprietary nvidia driver, specifically, but I may be wrong about that.)

(*) Symptoms: sddm, but also lightdm and gdm3 showing only black. startx brings up an xfce session without problems.