[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1748511] Re: Xorg crash

2018-02-09 Thread Jon Watte
Thanks for the questions 1) Removing the kernel parameter causes the same problem (plus, shutdown doesn't work.) 2) I cannot take the graphics card out of the laptop, but I uninstalled the nouveau package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. This may have improved things; see below! 3) This is on a fresh

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1748511] [NEW] Xorg crash

2018-02-09 Thread Jon Watte
Public bug reported: I've installed ubuntu desktop 17.10 amd64 from scratch in UEFI mode on a Dell XPS 15 9560 laptop. This laptop comes with i915 built-in graphics, as well as an NVIDIA 1050 GPU, but I am not trying to make the NVIDIA work yet, and have blacklisted nouveau. I'm using xorg 1:7.