I've further noticed that the nvidia-358 drivers are not stable after all. They do work, but there is a quirk that the system hangs on a black screen with text cursor blinking at top left when booting up via a cold boot.
Curiously, inserting Linux Mint 18 installer USB disk, booting to it, and then choosing Reboot in the live USB menu, removing the USB disk to boot to Linux Mint 18 does work, and the system does not hang at booting up to desktop. After that, it is possible to reboot the system as many times as one wants and it seems to boot up to Mint 18 desktop properly, but shutting down all power and booting up will hang, and I need to "jumpstart" the boot again by entering the live environment and rebooting from there. Note that this is not related to bootloaders or similar, since after uninstalling nvidia-358 and falling back to nouveau software drivers, i.e. typing sudo apt-get purge nvidia* in Terminal, the system is able to do cold boots properly. (Also the graphics card is not faulty, the same system dual boots to Windows where it works correctly) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1611544 Title: The bundled nvidia-361 driver in Mint 18 crashes on GTX 980 Ti Status in Linux Mint: New Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: STR: 1. On a system with GTX 980 Ti graphics card (Asus Strix GTX 980 TI DC3OC to be exact), perform a clean install of Linux Mint 18. 2. Open up 'Update Manager' tool 3. Choose 'Optimize stability and security' 4. Choose 'Install Updates' at the top 5. After installations have finished, reboot the computer 6. Open up Update Manager again. 7. Install the two remaining packages: 'linux 4.4.0-34.53' 'linux-kernel 4.4.0-34.53' 8. After installation, reboot the computer At this point, the system is still running in software rendering mode. 9. Go to Driver Manager 10. Change the GPU driver from the active "xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (open-source)" to the only offered option "nvidia-361 (recommended)" and choose Apply Changes 11. Restart the computer as suggested by the Driver Manager Observed: When the desktop boots back up, it shows a dialog "Cinnamon just crashed. You are currently running in Fallback Mode. Do you want to restart Cinnamon?" Choosing Yes will deterministically crash again. Continuing the STR: 12. In terminal, type sudo apt-get purge nvidia* sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers sudo apt-get update and open Driver Manager again. More driver options have appeared. Observed: Trying out the driver nvidia-367 still crashes. However the driver nvidia-358 looks like a good version and choosing that works ok without crashing. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1611544/+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
