The GTX 1050 is relatively new. In my experience the GTX 1060 (slightly older) only started working recently and the GTX 960 still doesn't work with nouveau at last check.
Although when I say "working" I mean the machine boots without hanging and doesn't fall back to the LLVMpipe driver (which my GTX 1060 did for quite a while).
Yes definitely try blacklisting nouveau.
The GTX 1050 is relatively new. In my experience the GTX 1060 (slightly older) only started working recently and the GTX 960 still doesn't work with nouveau at last check.
Although when I say "working" I mean the machine boots without hanging and doesn't fall back to the LLVMpipe driver (which my GTX 1060 did for quite a while).