@Daniel van Vugt Yeah, when it was a fresh install. The grub boot loader displayed, and once it started booting into Ubuntu, the last line (in 'text' mode) was saying "changing into EFI VGA"; after that there were no monitor output, as if it were connected, but just a black display; and unlike a poorly configured X.conf, it was just black. No cursor, no switch to terminal (CTRL+ALT+F1)
I installed on a DisplayPort-to-Dvi monitor with a 1m cable, and then after the install finished and rebooted, I switched it back to DisplayPort connected to the LG 34" over a 15m cable. My screen was all flickering, pixelated line distortions flicker across the screen. It stopped after installing nvidia drivers -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1747488 Title: [GeForce GTX 1080] 17.10.1 DisplayPort 15m cable no display after starting "EFI VGA" Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Ubuntu 17.10.1 boots into a black screen with no display, when switching into "EFI VGA" during boot up. Modifying the boot menu to run in "text" mode, shows the last line as below, before losing all monitor output: "Switching to EFI VGA" The 15m DisplayPort cable shouldn't be a problem, but using a DisplayPort-to-DVI adapter and a 1m DVI cable works PC Specs CPU : Intel Core i9-7900X 4.3GHz 10-Core MBO : ASRock X299 Taichi RAM : Corsair Vengeance 32GB GPU : EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB FTW3 --- ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME DisplayManager: gdm3 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-05 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20180105.1) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia Package: gnome-shell 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13 Tags: artful Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo _MarkForUpload: True To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1747488/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
