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[Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx>]

Turns out 370 and up need setuid root again, so installing
xserver-xorg-legacy works around the problem.

Seems like a bug somehow...?

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 367 works great for me.
> It's the newer ones in the ppa that give me black screens, and only with startx.
> Guess I'll try to test on a few more machines.
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Tuomas Lähteenmäki <lahtis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 23.11.2016, 02:29, Dan Kegel kirjoitti:
>>> Hi!
>>> I've been using nvidia-370 from the graphics-drivers ppa
>>> happily for some time with various cards and ubuntu 16.04;
>>> I start a simple graphics environment with
>>>    systemctl start multi-user.target
>>>    startx
>>> and it's happy.
>>>
>>> But lately with either 370 or 375, I'm seeing startx just leave me with a black
>>> screen, using a gtx 1060 card.  367 works fine.  This will probably make
>>> it hard to use the bigger gtx 1050 cards, which I think require the
>>> newer driver.
>>>
>>> It's probably user error, but just in case, has anyone else had trouble
>>> with startx and newer drivers?
>>>
>>
>> Hi!
>> Im using nvidia-367 (367.57 closed drivers) from graphics-drivers ppa,
>> it is working great. The last time I used phoronix-test-suite program
>> (new version of phoronix site). A single program would crash. I do not
>> remember now what. And I saw a small stability problems. The letters on
>> the screen and the pictures seemed to be going blur. The problem was
>> pretty much the same as NVIDIA 349.12, 346.47 and 346.35 drivers.
>>
>> Rebooting the machine fixed the problem.
>>
>> Im using NVIDIA GeFORCE GTX 770 with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
>>
>> lahtis
>>