Tried again, this time remembering to tell my BIOS not to auto-disable the integrated graphics, so now I have both:
$ ls /dev/dri by-path card0 card1 renderD128 renderD129 But the outcome is the same. GDM and gnome-shell work perfectly with only the Nvidia card plugged in. They just allow Xorg sessions and hide the Wayland options. So it seems the relevant smarts are working in gdm. I'm not sure what's different about your machine other than the card model. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1705369 Title: Ubuntu 17.10 boots to black screen when using Nvidia drivers (on a desktop with an Intel GPU) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1705369/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs