In ubuntu 18.04 after discovering that the wrong nvidia driver was polluting my kernel.log I've tried different combination of nvidia drivers with no success.
When I sudo service gdm start
the login screen shows up but after login a black page blocks everithing,
4.15.0-33-generic
nvidia-340:
Installed: 340.106-0ubuntu3
Candidate: 340.107-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1
Version table:
340.107-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1 500
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
*** 340.106-0ubuntu3 500
500 mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt bionic/restricted amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
How can i diagnose/solve this?
UPDATE:
Same problem with a fresh install after installing nvidia recomended drivers.
Resolved avoiding nvidia drivers.
Should this be a hardware error?
Btw video card runs with no problem in Windows.
Best Answer
I had same problem with both Ubuntu 18.10 and 19.04. I have a dell Vostro 3670 (see https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=0f87997cd1). This solution did not work for me. After reboot the screen stays blanc. I found a solution to restore the Ubuntu desktop at least. From #17 on proprietary drivers not showing up - Page 2