Public bug reported: I am having issues with the NVIDIA 570 drivers rendering my system completely unusable on Ubuntu 25.04/Kubuntu 25.04.
On a clean install of Ubuntu 25.04 / Kubuntu 25.04 (I tried this on both distros), when I use the nouveau drivers, I am able to boot into my desktop environment with no issues. Before this, on my old system using Ubuntu 24.04 and version 535 of the NVIDIA drivers + CUDA 12.0 toolkit, there was no issue. However, after using ubuntu-drivers to install nvidia-driver-570-open on the current system (which is the "recommended" driver), upon reboot my computer will go immediately from boot splash screen to a black screen where it freezes. I am not able to switch to TTY with CTRL+F2/F3/etc and from this point, the only way that I am able to access my system at all after this point is via a chroot environment with a LiveUSB. As far as hardware I am using ASUS WRX90E-SAGE motherboard (with latest v0914 BIOS), AMD TR Pro 7965WX CPU, and dual NVIDIA RTX 4090s (see attached lspci.txt for full hardware profile). I have tried this install process both with and without UEFI Secure Boot enabled, with the same result. (Currently UEFI secure boot is disabled on my system) I have tried setting various kernel commands such as nvidia- drm.modeset=1, nvidia-drm.fbdev=1, etc and that does not fix the issue. I have tried a variety of different install methods, ranging from ubuntu-drivers, to manually installing the packages directly (e.g. apt install nvidia-driver-570-open), to using the official NVIDIA install process with their third party repos (which use driver version 575, which has same bug). Unfortunately, the 535 version of the driver is no longer available via ubuntu-drivers (it only has the server version). This driver appears to be causing similar issues for several people both on Ubuntu and derivatives such as Mint: * "25.04 boots up to a black screen, both built-in and external monitors" -- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/2107684 * "Black screen with Nvidia 570 open kernel drivers" - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=446163 * "Ubuntu 24.04.2 AMD threadripper Blank Screen While Install with Nvidia RTX 5090 Zotac" - https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-2-amd-threadripper-blank-screen-while-install-with-nvidia-rtx-5090-zotac/326242/14 (this article is about RTX 5090, but it's the same motherboard/GPU family and NVIDIA driver and resulting in same issue) I am at a loss for what to do. This is quite a time consuming bug to address because every time I try something new and reboot, the only way I can get back into my system is to spend several minutes booting back into a live USB, creating a chroot environment, and using timeshift to revert back to the pre-NVIDIA driver state. I am happy to provide any information that you all think would be helpful, and I can boot into the chroot environment while it's broken to generate any helpful reports from there. ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-570 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: nvidia wayland ** Attachment added: "output of lspci -vv" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2114244/+attachment/5883672/+files/lspci.txt ** Description changed: - Ubuntu 25.04 - I am having issues with the NVIDIA 570 drivers rendering my system completely unusable on Ubuntu 25.04/Kubuntu 25.04. On a clean install of Ubuntu 25.04 / Kubuntu 25.04 (I tried this on both distros), when I use the nouveau drivers, I am able to boot into my desktop environment with no issues. Before this, on my old system using Ubuntu 24.04 and version 535 of the NVIDIA drivers + CUDA 12.0 toolkit, there was no issue. However, after using ubuntu-drivers to install nvidia-driver-570-open on the current system (which is the "recommended" driver), upon reboot my computer will go immediately from boot splash screen to a black screen where it freezes. I am not able to switch to TTY with CTRL+F2/F3/etc and from this point, the only way that I am able to access my system at all after this point is via a chroot environment with a LiveUSB. As far as hardware I am using ASUS WRX90E-SAGE motherboard (with latest v0914 BIOS), AMD TR Pro 7965WX CPU, and dual NVIDIA RTX 4090s (see attached lspci.txt for full hardware profile). I have tried this install process both with and without UEFI Secure Boot enabled, with the same result. (Currently UEFI secure boot is disabled on my system) I have tried setting various kernel commands such as nvidia- drm.modeset=1, nvidia-drm.fbdev=1, etc and that does not fix the issue. I have tried a variety of different install methods, ranging from ubuntu-drivers, to manually installing the packages directly (e.g. apt install nvidia-driver-570-open), to using the official NVIDIA install process with their third party repos (which use driver version 575, which has same bug). Unfortunately, the 535 version of the driver is no longer available via ubuntu-drivers (it only has the server version). This driver appears to be causing similar issues for several people both on Ubuntu and derivatives such as Mint: * "25.04 boots up to a black screen, both built-in and external monitors" -- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/2107684 * "Black screen with Nvidia 570 open kernel drivers" - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=446163 * "Ubuntu 24.04.2 AMD threadripper Blank Screen While Install with Nvidia RTX 5090 Zotac" - https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-2-amd-threadripper-blank-screen-while-install-with-nvidia-rtx-5090-zotac/326242/14 (this article is about RTX 5090, but it's the same motherboard/GPU family and NVIDIA driver and resulting in same issue) I am at a loss for what to do. This is quite a time consuming bug to address because every time I try something new and reboot, the only way I can get back into my system is to spend several minutes booting back into a live USB, creating a chroot environment, and using timeshift to revert back to the pre-NVIDIA driver state. I am happy to provide any information that you all think would be helpful, and I can boot into the chroot environment while it's broken to generate any helpful reports from there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2114244 Title: NVIDIA 570 drivers render my system completely unusable (black screen / unresponsive) on Ubuntu 25.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-570/+bug/2114244/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
