[GTALUG] Can't boot using Xorg, only Wayland works on Ubuntu 18.04

[Jim Ruxton]

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.
>
>   Stewart
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