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** Description changed:
Shortly after logging in for the first time, the screen goes black, and
after a little while, I'm back at the login screen. A subsequent login
puts me in "dumb software mode."
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+ WORKAROUND: Uninstall the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package and login
+ to GNOME
Thanks for the questions
1) Removing the kernel parameter causes the same problem (plus, shutdown
doesn't work.)
2) I cannot take the graphics card out of the laptop, but I uninstalled
the nouveau package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau. This may have improved
things; see below!
3) This is on a
Jon Watte, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
1) Regarding using kernel parameter:
acpi_rev_override=5
Could you please advise if you remove it altogether (i.e. perform a
default boot) what happens?
2) Regarding your attempt to blacklist nouveau, as per your log below,
** Description changed:
- I've installed ubuntu desktop 17.10 amd64 from scratch in UEFI mode on a Dell
XPS 15 9560 laptop.
- This laptop comes with i915 built-in graphics, as well as an NVIDIA 1050 GPU,
but I am not trying to make the NVIDIA work yet, and have blacklisted nouveau.
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- I'm
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