Comment 9 for bug 2031198

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Bruce Goodwin (bgoodwin) wrote (last edit ): Re: Boots to black after upgrade to 22.04, Cannot use other TTY interfaces either (ctrl+alt+f2, etc)

Thanks for looking at this, Daniel!

I tried these things with the following results.

* switching to nvidia-driver 525, 470, and 390 (non-server variants)
   * Same behavior. - No graphics, backlight or ability to switch to another TTY
 * uninstalling nvidia packages (`apt remove --purge '*nvidia*'` and `apt autoremove`) and attempting to use the nouveau driver
   * Result: On boot, the screen was black with backlight on. loginctl reported that whatever was there was running on wayland, This is different from all the other experiments I've tried before, where it reports x11. I was unable to use the "just pretend there's a login screen there" trick described in comment #5. Dunno if that's because the wayland login screen is different or if there simply wasnt one this time.

Since completely removing all nvidia drivers and relying on the nouveau drivers also didn't give me a working login screen, i think there's something else (possibly in addition to messed up nvidia drivers) going on.