There is a new nvidia-370 driver that came just out recently. That does no longer crash Cinnamon (yay!), but the cold boot issue persists.
Curiously, booting up to a failed boot and pressing reset to reboot when it hangs (to hope it's a warm boot the second time) doesn't work, and the second boot won't start up either. Booting up the cold boot to Linux Mint 18 USB stick, and rebooting from there does work, and the reboot gets to desktop with 3D acceleration working properly (stress tested via Phoronix test suite, which gets good scores). Uninstalling nvidia drivers with "sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*" does fix the system to be able do cold boots to desktop without problems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1611544 Title: The bundled nvidia-361 driver in Mint 18 crashes on GTX 980 Ti Status in Linux Mint: New Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: STR: 1. On a system with GTX 980 Ti graphics card (Asus Strix GTX 980 TI DC3OC to be exact), perform a clean install of Linux Mint 18. 2. Open up 'Update Manager' tool 3. Choose 'Optimize stability and security' 4. Choose 'Install Updates' at the top 5. After installations have finished, reboot the computer 6. Open up Update Manager again. 7. Install the two remaining packages: 'linux 4.4.0-34.53' 'linux-kernel 4.4.0-34.53' 8. After installation, reboot the computer At this point, the system is still running in software rendering mode. 9. Go to Driver Manager 10. Change the GPU driver from the active "xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (open-source)" to the only offered option "nvidia-361 (recommended)" and choose Apply Changes 11. Restart the computer as suggested by the Driver Manager Observed: When the desktop boots back up, it shows a dialog "Cinnamon just crashed. You are currently running in Fallback Mode. Do you want to restart Cinnamon?" Choosing Yes will deterministically crash again. Continuing the STR: 12. In terminal, type sudo apt-get purge nvidia* sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers sudo apt-get update and open Driver Manager again. More driver options have appeared. Observed: Trying out the driver nvidia-367 still crashes. However the driver nvidia-358 looks like a good version and choosing that works ok without crashing. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1611544/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
