I have a macbookpro 10,1 with a GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition
Running ubuntu-mate 16.10
currently using the Nouveau Drivers
Whenever I install the nvidia driver (both from additional drivers and from the updated ppa)the computer just boots to a black screen. I do get the mate loading screen, 5 dots, then black.
I did have 16.04 earlier in the year and I would get the display 1 out of 4 times (nvidia splash after the 5 dots)but after 16.10 and new nvidia drivers I can not boot to the login screen even after 8+ tries.
I have tried the bumblebee package but that requires an OS reinstall
nvidia-prime comes with the drivers but I do not see the option before I reboot
You should first determine if that black screen means the computer froze I think.
When you get to the black screen hit CTRL+ALT+F1, if the computer is not frozen you should get access to a terminal login screen.
Thanks for the reply. I have tried that in the past at the black screen with no luck. I’ve had to do a hard power kill and boot to recovery to remove the nvidia driver to get it back working
I just tried doing a live install of 16.10 UM and I was getting a blank screen while It was loading, I could hear the boot up sound but still blank screen. After doing some research I found that adding nomodeset to grub fixed the blank screen and was able to do the install.
I did use that originally to fix my system but with nomodeset I believe that it drop down to the intel integrated chip. This allowed me to get in to remove the nvidia drivers not to actually use it.
found this in syslog
Dec 13 10:54:57 matepro kernel: [ 10.828256] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_del (err 0)
Dec 13 10:54:57 matepro kernel: [ 10.828398] nvidia: Unknown symbol mtrr_add (err 0)
This thread is two years old, but I am actually facing the exact same issue and have been unsuccessful so far. That is, I have a 10,1 MBP retina that I tried to get any nvidia drive to work on but all that I get is the same black screen or the 4-dots freeze reported above. I tried various solutions and always had to revert back to the nouveau drive. In a few attempts I even had to reinstall since the “fix” actually messed with more things it should.
My question: is it really possible at all? You mentioned a “major breakthrough” but I tried to run nvidia-xconfig in some of those attempts and got nothing more than the black screen. Are you still managing to have a stable configuration with an nvidia drive on a MBP 10,1?
Is Diablo 3 still firing up?