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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers-testers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers-testers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
