Today I got Xorg loading.I did the following: sudo apt-get purge nvidia* sudo apt install nvidia-kernel-source-396 sudo apt install nvidia-driver-396 Unfortunately this still didn't work at this point so I removed /etc/X11/xorg.conf Then I booted into Gnome with Xorg. Removing Xorg.conf may have been the trick all along. I may not have needed to update the nvidia drivers . I tried regenerating xorg.conf with nvidia-xconfig . Again using this generated xorg.conf I couldn't boot into Xorg so removed it again. Unfortunately using the nvidia card I still cant run dual monitors. I don't see my HDMI monitor with either nvidia-settings or the gnome display settings. Using nvidia prime if I select the intel card I can use dual monitors. Super frustrating that I can't see the second monitor using nvida but at least I got Xorg booting. I hope this helps you Stewart. Cheers, Jim On 2018-05-18 07:10 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
On 2018-05-16 04:04 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
If you can ssh into the machine you might be able to discover what's going on. I did the full 18.04 upgrade on an older laptop with dual Intel/Nvidia graphics. It's hard-locking on trying to start gdm, and won't even talk over ethernet or respond to Magic SysRq.
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