Ubuntu
gdm3 package

  1. Bug #1705369
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 1705369

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Tim Richardson (tim-richardson) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 17.10 boots to black screen when using Nvidia drivers (on a desktop with an Intel GPU)

For what it's worth, nvidia Optimus requires the integrated display to be modeset=1, this is what you mean by "nomodeset would break laptops", I assume. Should we be reporting this upstream?