Today I got Xorg loading.I did the following:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt install nvidia-kernel-source-396
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-396
Unfortunately this still didn't work at this point so I removed
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Then I booted into Gnome with Xorg. Removing Xorg.conf may have been the
trick all along. I may not have needed to update the nvidia drivers . I
tried regenerating xorg.conf with nvidia-xconfig . Again using this
generated xorg.conf I couldn't boot into Xorg so removed it again.
Unfortunately using the nvidia card I still cant run dual monitors. I
don't see my HDMI monitor with either nvidia-settings or the gnome
display settings. Using nvidia prime if I select the intel card I can
use dual monitors. Super frustrating that I can't see the second monitor
using nvida but at least I got Xorg booting. I hope this helps you Stewart.
Cheers,
Jim
On 2018-05-18 07:10 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
On 2018-05-16 04:04 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
If you can ssh into the machine you might be able to discover what's
going on.
I did the full 18.04 upgrade on an older laptop with dual Intel/Nvidia
graphics. It's hard-locking on trying to start gdm, and won't even talk
over ethernet or respond to Magic SysRq.
Stewart
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