Hassan Williamson, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.
1) To clarify, did this issue not occur in a Ubuntu release prior to 16.04? 2) If you uninstall the nvidia proprietary drivers, does this provide an additional WORKAROUND? ** No longer affects: unity (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: lightdm (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-361 (Ubuntu) ** Tags added: latest-bios-45cn38ww ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1587699 Title: Screen blank/black after splash screen To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1587699/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs