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After installing ubuntu 18.10 I get the loading splash screen followed by a black screen and a blinking cursor. I believe it's because the latest nvidia drivers (418.43) that are needed for the 1660ti haven't been added to the repro yet and need to be manually installed.

When I tried Mint 19.1 I could get to the desktop and there was a warning message about the DE running in software mode. However, I was unable to install nvidia-settings because of some missing dependencies and then dpkg problems.

How can I get Ubuntu to boot into the DE so I can download and install the driver manually?

alex87
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Either...

  1. Boot into Recovery Mode from the GRUB menu. Get to the root prompt and install the Nvidia driver from there.

  2. At the GRUB menu, hit the e key to enter edit mode. Find "quiet splash" and change it to "quiet splash nomodeset", then control-x to continue booting. The screen resolution will be off.

  3. Then (re)install the correct/latest Nvidia driver for your card.

  4. reboot

heynnema
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