Ubuntu 17.10 has replaced the old X11 Display Server with Wayland, and also now comes with the GDM3 Display Manager (Gnome) by default. However, this new version comes with a bug that affects users using NVIDIA graphics drivers.
After some research, I found out that the fix is quite simple, just add a directive to grub.
In the grub configuration file “/etc/default/grub”, add“nvidia-drm.modeset=1” in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT:
... GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nvidia-drm.modeset=1" ...
Update grub:
update-grub
All you have to do is restart your computer and the NVIDIA driver should now work.
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