[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1750937] Re: 4.4.0-116 Kernel update on 2/21 breaks Nvidia drivers (on 14.04 and 16.04)

2018-02-24 Thread Jacek Wieczorek
I can use my Ubuntu 14.04.05 with kernel 4.4.0-112-generic normally, but when it comes to booting with 4.4.0-116-generic Nvidia drivers don't work. My gcc-4.8 version is "gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.5-2ubuntu1~14.04.1) 4.8.5" and gcc-5 version is "gcc-5 (Ubuntu 5.4.1-2ubuntu1~14.04) 5.4.1 20160904". I tried

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1750937] Re: 4.4.0-116 Kernel update on 2/21 breaks Nvidia drivers (on 14.04 and 16.04)

2018-02-25 Thread Jacek Wieczorek
Following instructions provided by @cjjefcoat, I managed to get kernel -116 running. It turns out that just removing the "ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test" ppa and reinstalling the gcc-4.8 wasn't sufficient to get it downgraded to "gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4) 4.8.4". Anyway, *purging* the