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After installing nvidia driver, the login screen converts to a black blank screen and frequently restarts that screen, I read several threads and did many ways but didn’t work.my graphic card is gt720m and Ubuntu 18.04 and the version of driver is 340.107.
Unable to load Nvidia drivers on Xubuntu 18.04
So I'm having a heck of a time with this, and I've exhausted everything I can think of.
I'm running a dual-boot Xubuntu 18.04/Windows 10 system on a Dell Inspiron 15 gaming laptop with a mobile GeForce 1050. As it's a dual-boot system I've been able to rule out any sort of hardware fault with the GPU - it runs just fine in Windows with the expected performance.
When I attempt to install Nvidia drivers from the PPA they will install successfully, but attempting to launch Nvidia settings results in it not opening. Running it from the command line gives an error that the Nvidia driver is not loaded and that it could not communicate with the GPU. nvidia-smi provides a similar result.
If I remove the PPA and install from 'Additional Drivers', then Nvidia settings will load, however, there's nothing really configurable. It will give a similar error to the above from the command line.
If I run lsmod, I get that the default nouvaeu driver is loaded, despite it being blacklisted.
![Nvidia Stable Ubuntu Drivers 18.04 Nvidia Stable Ubuntu Drivers 18.04](http://ubuntuhandbook.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/nvidia-418-600x376.jpg)
Attempting to install the driver from the Nvidia website results in a refusal to install, because it can't find any compatible hardware despite the GTX 1050's notebook variant being listed as compatible. lspci returns that the GPU is indeed detected as a GTX 1050 from the system.
I've additionally tried to install both the 396 and 390 drivers from the PPA with no change. I've tried the nvidia-current package, but this relies on the 304 driver which appears to not be available from the repos.
Secure boot on the system is entirely disabled.
I've also installed ukuu and tried the latest Linux Kernel (as that had solved some bleeding edge hardware issues on another Linux system I have), however this didn't change any of the results.
Again I can verify that the GPU works in Windows, and it worked out fine in 17.10 - I simply installed the driver from the PPA, rebooted, and I was golden. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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