Installing the following file and rebooting allows the nvidia drivers to retain control of the console.
% cat /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf # This module conflicts with the nvidia drivers & blacklisting does not work install i915 /bin/true This workaround is probably only useful for similar hardware, that wants to load the i915 driver. In my case it is % lspci | grep -i vga|grep -iv nvidia 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06)
