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Ubuntu 17.10 Wayland – Bug with NVIDIA drivers
By Lucas
October 22, 2017
1 min min read
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.