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I bought my laptop Windows pre-installed. After deleting Windows I didn't disable the UEFI boot from BIOS (doesn't exits any more). So I installed Ubuntu 15.04 including UEFI boot partition. Everything was fine but after upgrading to 16.04, my Nvidia driver is not working any more. It's stuck on black screen.

After googling, I found out that black screen can be fixed by disabling the UEFI boot but in my situation I cannot disable UEFI. So is there any other way that I can use my Nvidia driver?

Note: I have already tried nomodeset option. It didn't help.

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shantanu
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As of 18.04 this (installing nvidia driver with UEFI) is done automatically by Device Manager (Read it carefully where it says to type password into MOK to add drivers, on restart. I missed it first time.)

For a DIY version of the same How to install nvidia driver with secure boot enabled? Although you may have to disable nouveau more forcefully by blacklisting it https://gist.github.com/Rambou/c6769caee19b0b9915d8342b86c3ef72

You can check which driver your gpu is using with: sudo lshw -c video which will contain a line that says: configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 (or will say nouveau instead of nvidia if hasn't succeeded)

rdk
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