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| disable_nvidia_nouveau [13.06.2017 17:49] – [I want the opposite, Monitor on my onboard card, Nvidia card just for CUDA] Pascal Suter | disable_nvidia_nouveau [30.09.2017 07:11] (current) – [Disabling the NVIDIA Nouveau driver in Ubuntu] Pascal Suter | ||
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| after that, you need to recreate the grub config by running | after that, you need to recreate the grub config by running | ||
| update-grub | update-grub | ||
| - | and reboot once more. check again and if you still see nouveau modules, start googling ;) so far these steps have always worked on all ubuntu systems i had touched since 10.04 | + | and reboot once more. check again and if you still see nouveau modules, start googling ;) |
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| + | another problem i have recently encountered with ubuntu 17.04 on a computer booting ubuntu-gnome via uefi was, that after showing the grub menu the screen remained gray (would be purple with ubuntu i guess) and nothing worked, no ctrl+alt+key hotkeys or anything. i added this to the linux cmdline via grub to finally get my computer to boot again: | ||
| + | i915.modeset=0 | ||
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| + | so far these steps have always worked on all ubuntu systems i had touched since 10.04 | ||
| ===== use a repository for a packaged driver ===== | ===== use a repository for a packaged driver ===== | ||
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| suppose you can start lightdm and login and all you get after that is an empty desktop background, chances are, that your xorg has now started allright but unity did not. you can right click and launch a terminal and it will have no window decoration and there will be no close button etc. if this is the case, then you need to try several different possible solutions, beause what you are seing can result from many different problems. | suppose you can start lightdm and login and all you get after that is an empty desktop background, chances are, that your xorg has now started allright but unity did not. you can right click and launch a terminal and it will have no window decoration and there will be no close button etc. if this is the case, then you need to try several different possible solutions, beause what you are seing can result from many different problems. | ||
| - | i found a [[|good article on askubuntu]] that describes all these possible solutions. i have copied it here just in case: | + | i found a [[https:// |
| This bug depends on several factors, including Video card and custom config files. For example, some users have solved the issue by doing one or several of the following " | This bug depends on several factors, including Video card and custom config files. For example, some users have solved the issue by doing one or several of the following " | ||