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 then choosing Reboot in the live USB menu, removing the USB disk to boot to Linux Mint 18 does work, and the system does not hang at booting up to desktop. After that, it is possible to reboot the system as many times as one wants and it seems to boot up to Mint 18 desktop properly, but shutting down all power and booting up will hang, and I need to "jumpstart" the boot again by entering the live environment and rebooting from there. Note that this is not related to bootloaders or similar, since after uninstalling nvidia-358 and falling back to nouveau software drivers, i.e. typing sudo apt-get purge nvidia* in Terminal, the system is able to do cold boots properly. (Also the graphics card is not faulty, the same system dual boots to Windows where it works correctly) -- 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 nvidia-361 driver in Mint 18 crashes on GTX 980 Ti To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1611544/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
