This is happening to me too on released 17.04 64bit. Also with a GTX 970. 16.04 worked just fine.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1613158 Title: Booting with Nvidia GTX 970 hangs with an orange/corrupt screen in kernels 4.8-4.11 (but works with 4.4.0) Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Booting with Nvidia GTX 970 hangs with an orange screen in kernels 4.7 and 4.8rc1 (but works with 4.4.0). I've tried: * Plain yakkety 4.4.0-34-generic * Mainline kernel 4.7 * Mainline kernel 4.8rc1 and only the first one works. Kernels 4.7 and 4.8rc1 freeze with a bright orange screen. Best I can tell, the frozen orange screen coincides with kernel log messages: Aug 15 12:24:23 x51 kernel: [ 1.761197] fb: switching to nouveaufb from simple Aug 15 12:24:23 x51 kernel: [ 1.761210] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25 ... Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.896160] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.897225] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.898292] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.899358] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.900423] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.901489] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.902555] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.903621] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.904686] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.905753] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.906818] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.907883] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.908949] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.910014] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.911079] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.912145] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.913210] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 [] ... ... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1613158/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
