Hello. My situation was very complicated, and none of the fixes I found would work. I am running a Nvidia GTX970 with an Intel CPU and using a dual monitor setup. Ubuntu 17.04 was working very well. Later upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10, the Nvidia graphics became an issue because of Wayland, but I followed this guide and was able to set it working for 17.10, https://charlienewey.github.io/getting-nvidia-drivers-working-on- ubuntu-17-10/ . For 18.04, nothing I found online was working. I was able to setup Openbox and use that to investigate the matter. I suspected it was some sort of opengl problem since all applications requiring it would fail to run and cheking with the terminal, it would say that the libGLU1.1.so was not found, or one of those opengl libraries. Upon further investigating, it turned out that the xorg that comes stock with 18.04 does not have the latest Mesa patch that supports nvidia graphics cards. So I ended up getting the padoka ppa in order to get the latest xorg and mesa. Upon doing so, everything is working fine. I thought this fix was a little unorthodox being that I believed that Padoka was for Nouvou and AMD cards but, apparently it fixed the issue with the proprietary 396 drivers. I had the same issue with the 384, and 390. So I am not sure if this fix only pertains to the Nvidia 396 drivers, but I believe the problem stems from an Xorg that does not have the latest Mesa.
https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752053 Title: nvidia-390 fails to boot graphical display Status in mesa package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I'm using Bionic with the new 4.15 kernel. I've been using the nvidia-384 driver with no problem for a while. Today I issued "sudo apt-get upgrade" and I was prompted to upgrade the nvidia driver to the nvidia-390. After installing the driver and rebooting, I was only able to boot in to the tty terminal. The graphical display failed to boot. I have had similar problems with nvidia driver version 390 with Arch Linux and with Open Suse Tumbleweed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1752053/+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
