When my system became sick, I tried to get around the issues.

Occasional fails to resume from suspension (basically the system appeared as shut down) or to shutdown (stuck with black screen).

No video in virtual TTY consoles ( CTRL+F1, … F6).

No lock screen video after resuming from suspension.

SymptomsĪfter the unknown culprit update, my system started to behave like that: In this post I describe the symptoms and what I did to finally solve the problem.

I don’t really know what caused it, but out of the blue my system stopped to be reliable after suspension. There are some stories about broken systems after drivers updates I know a person who is afraid to update his system because of past horror experiences.įor the past 3 years my Ubuntu+NVIDIA experience has been quite smooth, until last week.

It is a widely accepted truth that NVIDIA and Linux are a bad combination. NVIDIA drivers and Ubuntu: an horror storyĪ short horror story (with a nice ending) featuring Ubuntu and NVIDIA drivers.

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