[Bug 1611544] Re: The bundled nvidia-361 driver in Mint 18 crashes on GTX 980 Ti

2016-08-21 Thread juj
Phew, after a lot of reinstalling and testing out random things, managed to get this to work. Things that turned out to be critical: 1. Installed nvidia-370 driver that just recently came out. 2. In GRUB boot, replaced "quiet splash" with "nomodeset" (detailed instructions here: http://askubuntu.

[Bug 1611544] Re: The bundled nvidia-361 driver in Mint 18 crashes on GTX 980 Ti

2016-08-21 Thread juj
"Fix Released" since nvidia-370 drivers worked for me, with the above steps. ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-367 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 1611544] Re: The bundled nvidia-361 driver in Mint 18 crashes on GTX 980 Ti

2016-08-21 Thread juj
There is a new nvidia-370 driver that came just out recently. That does no longer crash Cinnamon (yay!), but the cold boot issue persists. Curiously, booting up to a failed boot and pressing reset to reboot when it hangs (to hope it's a warm boot the second time) doesn't work, and the second boot

[Bug 1611544] Re: The bundled nvidia-361 driver in Mint 18 crashes on GTX 980 Ti

2016-08-20 Thread juj
Tried out nomodeset GRUB boot, and removed quiet and splash from the boot, but that does not help, and I was not able to see any error messages in the boot log that might be relevant. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. htt

[Bug 1611544] Re: The bundled nvidia-361 driver in Mint 18 crashes on GTX 980 Ti

2016-08-20 Thread juj
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 the

[Bug 1611544] Re: The bundled nvidia-361 driver in Mint 18 crashes on GTX 980 Ti

2016-08-10 Thread juj
Also occurs when attempting to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. ** Also affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1611544 Title: The bundled

[Bug 1611538] Re: Proprietary graphics drivers are not installed for GTX 980 Ti even when asked to do so during installation time on Mint 18

2016-08-10 Thread juj
Also occurs when attempting to install Ubuntu 16.04 RTM. ** Also affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1611538 Title: Proprietary

[Bug 1611539] Re: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2 does not know how to read video modes of a HDMI connected display

2016-08-10 Thread juj
Also occurs when attempting to install Ubuntu 16.04 RTM. ** Also affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1611539 Title: xserver-xor