I am seeing the same problem with current cosmic 18.10. The stock nouveau drivers work fine but using 'sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall' to install either the nvidia-390 or nvidia-396 drivers produces a black screen (backlighting completely off) after the ubuntu splash screen has been displayed on rebooting.
MacPro 2008 GPU: EVGA GTX 680 flashed with the Mac ROM images -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764005 Title: Black-screen on boot with nvidia 390 for Budgie, MATE, Xubuntu, Kubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-prime/+bug/1764005/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
