[Bug 1796614] Re: [nouveau] Ubuntu 18.10 boots to a blank screen with a blinking cursor

2019-07-21 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) reached end-of-life on July 18, 2019. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. Bu

[Bug 1796614] Re: [nouveau] Ubuntu 18.10 boots to a blank screen with a blinking cursor

2019-02-21 Thread ncs
I had the same problem, and also solved it with uncommenting WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf. I don't even have nVidia..! I'm using my CPU's graphics controller and intel graphics: ~ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core p

[Bug 1796614] Re: [nouveau] Ubuntu 18.10 boots to a blank screen with a blinking cursor

2018-12-10 Thread Daniel van Vugt
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[Bug 1796614] Re: [nouveau] Ubuntu 18.10 boots to a blank screen with a blinking cursor

2018-11-20 Thread Daniel van Vugt
The same workaround seems to be working for bug 1798790. Although that is about the proprietary Nvidia driver and this one is about nouveau (which also means Jeffery seems to be commenting on the wrong bug). Not sure if we can or should merge the two bugs. ** Tags added: nvidia -- You received t

[Bug 1796614] Re: [nouveau] Ubuntu 18.10 boots to a blank screen with a blinking cursor

2018-11-20 Thread Jeffery
I also have this problem. Differences for me: I have a RTX 2080 and installed Nvidia's 410.78 driver manually. Whenever I boot, I too get the black screen with a blinking cursor. I also have the ctrl+alt+F3, login and run startx This brings me to the gnome desktop instead of the traditional Ubu

[Bug 1796614] Re: [nouveau] Ubuntu 18.10 boots to a blank screen with a blinking cursor

2018-11-20 Thread Jeffery
Caveat: Thanks Christopher... I duplicated your solution by editing the /etc/gdm3/custom.conf Everything seems to be working again. :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 1796614] Re: [nouveau] Ubuntu 18.10 boots to a blank screen with a blinking cursor

2018-11-20 Thread Jeffery
I also have this problem. Differences for me: I have a RTX 2080 and installed Nvidia's 410.78 driver manually. Whenever I boot, I too get the black screen with a blinking cursor. I also have the ctrl+alt+F3, login and run startx This brings me to the gnome desktop instead of the traditional Ubu