This also affects me. I'm on a Latitude e7450, and tried exactly the steps described above, but no luck.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to bbswitch in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1684678 Title: NVIDIA Driver Crashes the System Status in bbswitch package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When I install the proprietary driver from NVIDIA the system doesn't log on.In return it repeatedly shows the error. bbswitch:No suitable _dsm call found Driver shown Additional Drivers Page: Using NVIDIA binary driver-version 375.29 from nvidia-375(proprietary,tested). The NVIDIA Driver was working fine in Ubuntu 16.10 in my laptop. When I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.04 I got this error. So I completely removed that and made a clean installation of Ubuntu 17.04 but still I got the error. My Laptop Specs: OS:Ubuntu 17.04 Processor:i5-5200u Graphics: NVIDIA 920M 2GB RAM: 8GB To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bbswitch/+bug/1684678/+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