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[Leif K-Brooks <eurleif@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had a similar issue on my Dell Precision M3800. (Black screen with
nvidia drivers enabled, fine with Intel drivers, and the workaround of
closing the lid worked.)

Turns out, it was caused by a buggy version of xserver-xorg-video-intel,
which came from the xorg-edgers PPA repository. When I downgraded to the
official Ubuntu version, everything worked fine.

To downgrade to the official Ubuntu version, you need to find its
version string. For me, on trusty, the latest official version string
was "2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1.6", but you can find it for yourself with "apt-
cache showpkg xserver-xorg-video-intel". Once you have the version
string, do "apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel=VERSIONSTRINGHERE".

You'll also want to "pin" the package to prevent upgrades from
automatically installing the PPA's version in the future. To do that,
create a file called /etc/apt/preferences.d/no-intel-ppa with the
following contents:

Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-xorg-edgers
Pin-Priority: -1

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1362848

Title:
  ubuntu 14.04 after install nvidia binary driver  331.89  black screen
  and freeze

Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit, after install nvidia binary driver
  331.89 from Additional Drivers application then reboot, it shows black
  screen, no login window, I even can't use ctrl+alt+F2 to switch to
  text mode, then I reboot and go to recovery mode, use 'prime-select
  intel' to switch to intel GPU and reboot, everything is fine, but as
  soon as I switch to nvidia GPU, still same issue.

  OS: Ubuntu 14.04 64bit
  Laptop: HP ENVY 15t Nvidia GeForce GT 740M + Intel HD 4600
  Desktop: Unity
  Kernel: 3.13.0
  CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ

  Thanks!

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