I am trying to install nvidia-driver (440) on my Ubuntu on my laptop. After a lot of failed attempts to install drivers properly I followed this instruction, which seemed good: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1050423/cannot-get-nvidia-graphics-card-to-work-on-ubuntu-18-04 Unfortunately, this doesn’t help. Even with the secure boot disabled I still got a black screen saying “/dev/sdb1: clean, 666666/14881488 files, 69696969/420420420 blocks” instead of normal lightdm user experience. The interesting part is: nvidia-smi actually shows some output and driver seems to be running (I forgot to write it down before purging nvidia again, sorry). Attached link to the nvidia-bug-report.sh output: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NwsEw-yh2HPewAnjOyX_Y0Dj1fofCr8b/view?usp=sharing I am on Ubuntu 19.10, kernel 5.3.0-24. I have acer predator helios 300 series laptop with GTX 1060 (GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile]) and Intel(R) Core™ i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz processor. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

Please follow this: delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf make sure nvidia-prime is installed (sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-prime) switch to nvidia (sudo prime-select nvidia) remove stray blacklist files (sudo rm /lib/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf) update the initrd (sudo update-initramfs -u) reboot

Please create a new nvidia-bug-report.log.

I tried to access the terminal but unfortunately, all I see is a black screen right now and it’s not responding after I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1/F6/F7 several times. Do you have any idea how to access the terminal and generate the bug-report? Update: I tried to access the terminal from recovery mode, but it’s not responding there. The only output on the screen is : Loading ubuntu 5.x.xx-generic… Loading initial ramdisk…

You might try pressing alt+printscreen+r and afterwards alt+f4 If that does not work, boot to recovery mode and create the log from there.

Whenever I click the app I get a small window and my only options are help or quite (which are clickable). otherwise the screen is completely black and nothing can be clicked inside it. I have attached the nvidia-bug-report and would you like to look over it? nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (675.5 KB)

I’m also facing the black screen issue. I have a two screen setup including my laptop builtin display. When I run nvidia-xconfig, it creates the xorg.conf file but only detects the external HDMI monitor. After a reboot, only this on works fine, the builtin one only shows black screen. I also detached the bug report. Would be great if anyone would help me. Tried to fix it for so many hours now. nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (256.2 KB) .

Hello I have recently encountered the same issue. None of the solutions above seems to be working. The black screen for (k)ubuntu starting appeared after linux kernel+nvidia drivers update, but switching back to any of the previous versions does not resolve the issue. Kubuntu 18.04, GeForce GTX 1070, ASUS Strix GL502V. nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (261.9 KB) Thanks for any help!

Hi, I think I have the same problem as rest of the people here. I have stationary PC. GPU is 1080ti, Intel 8700k CPU. MB is AsRock Z370 Extreme4. Fresh Ubuntu 21.04 installation with Win-Linux dual-boot setup. After installation I can restart the Linux environment as many times as I want. But the resolution is ultra-low (1024x). So I update the Nvidia drivers from PPA (tried versions 450 and 460). When restarting the PC soon after nvidia driver installation - PC just freezes and therefore won’t restart. After system hard switch-off and ON - PC proceeds with boot process as normally, shows the GRUB window, then tries loading the Ubuntu (which is selected as default system) and… freezes. All I see is the Asrock logo in the middle of a black window. No console, no cursor, no log messages. nomodeset and nouveau.modeset=0 do only 1 difference. Instead of seeing the Asrock logo - PC shows a completely black window with no cursor or logs. And seemingly freezes/does nothing. With some trial and error I have managed to connect to PC via SSH when kernel is run with parameters nomodeset noefi noacpi noapci - some of these parameters seems to have helped. The system is still not booted but I can SSH into it. And I see some logs and a console. Also at this point I also managed to CTRL+ALT+F2. (I think it was when I installed sddm as default desktop manager) but the problem persists. When connected via SSH - I tried running the nvidia-bug-report.sh (also with flags) command but it never finishes executing so I cannot provide you with the log file. When I type “top” command to see the running processes I can see that there is 1 process that eats up 100% of CPU at all times: kworker/9:1+rcu_gp. Is this helpful? I have already reinstalled the Ubuntu system 4 times because of this issue… Please help. I am ready to provide all the information I can in order to make it work… p.s. In BIOS: secure boot disabled, fast boot disabled. Dedicated GPU selected as default. BIOS is of latest version.

Fresh Ubuntu 20.04 install: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install openssh-server sudo apt-get install lightdm sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm sudo apt-get remove nvidia* sudo apt-get remove nvidia-* reboot echo “blacklist nouveau” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf echo “blacklist lbm-nouveau” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf echo “options nouveau modeset=0” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf echo “alias nouveau off” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf echo “alias lbm-nouveau off” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf echo “blacklist nouveau” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf echo “blacklist nvidiafb” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf echo “options nouveau modeset=0” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf echo “blacklist nvidiafb” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidiafb.conf sudo bash -c “echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf” sudo bash -c “echo options nouveau modeset=0 >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf” sudo depmod -ae sudo update-initramfs -u reboot sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) sudo service lightdm stop sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-460 sudo apt install nvidia-prime sudo prime-select nvidia verify no entries: grep blacklist /etc/modprobe.d/* | grep nvidia grep blacklist /lib/modprobe.d/* | grep nvidia reboot (regular reboot - stuck at AsRock window. No SSH possibilities) reboot (with nomodeset - black screen, but with shell console log-on option available in WinSCP client. SSH logon in putty freezes after entering password) now, while in this black screen mode, and with console terminal opened on another PC in WinSCP. Here is diagnostics data. lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 resources: irq:163 memory:de000000-deffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff lsmod | grep nvidia nvidia_uvm 1011712 0 nvidia_drm 57344 0 nvidia_modeset 1228800 1 nvidia_drm nvidia 34136064 8 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset drm_kms_helper 217088 1 nvidia_drm drm 552960 3 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm modprobe nvidia nothing returned cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ && ls 10-amdgpu.conf 10-nvidia.conf 10-quirks.conf 10-radeon.conf 40-libinput.conf 70-wacom.conf cat 10-nvidia.conf Section “OutputClass” Identifier “nvidia” MatchDriver “nvidia-drm” Driver “nvidia” Option “AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration” ModulePath “/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nvidia/xorg” EndSection cd ~ or cd /tmp sudo nvidia-bug-report.sh Seems like at this point system is in read-only mode… ERROR: Working directory is not writable; please cd to a directory where you have write permission so that the nvidia-bug-report.log.gz file can be written. cd /dev sudo nvidia-bug-report.sh The tool DOES run in /dev folder, but it aborts my remote session for some reason. So I never see the tool finishing executing! However, it DOES produce report files… Though, only 2kb in size reboot into recovery mode. Enable networking. Open root console. rm /run/nologin systemctl restart ssh cd ~ nvidia-bug-report.sh –safe-mode --extra-system-data Without –safe-mode --extra-system-data attributes - command hanged/freezed the PC on first try… On second try - with attributes - command actually finished with no problems. So, long story short - I have the same problem as before. Completely black screen, with no cursor or any means of iteraction (when booted with nomodeset). Without nomodeset same situation, but asrock logo shown. Files: 0attributes_crash_nvidia-bug-report.log.gz - nvidia-bug-report.sh (freeze) 1attributeSafeMode_nvidia-bug-report.log.gz - nvidia-bug-report.sh –safe-mode (no freeze) nvidia-bug-report.log.gz - nvidia-bug-report.sh –safe-mode --extra-system-data (no freeze) p.s. After studying logs - I realized that PC freezes due to failure in nvidia-smi command in bug report script… I have verified this behavior couple of times, when I tried running nvidia-smi command manually. dmesg_tail500_oneOfEarlierBoots_withError.txt (41.5 KB) dmesg_tail500_latest_noError.txt (39.3 KB) 0attributes_crash_nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (79.7 KB) 1attributeSafeMode_nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (79.9 KB) nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (79.8 KB)

Black screen after install of nvidia driver ubuntu

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kothekarswaraj May 21, 2021, 5:07am 169

I installed drivers from ubuntu additional drivers.I also have the same issue. ubuntu gets stuck at boot screen at ubuntu logo. so I purged Nvidia drivers at a login terminal. the same issue continues. please help me booting Ubuntu with Nvidia. also, I don’t think I have messed up with any defaults.
here is my log file, please help
nvidia-bug-report.log (255.2 KB)

Ubuntu stuck at boot screen

Nvidia driver black screen problem (Ubuntu)

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