I have a reoccurring issue when there’s a new graphics driver update through the PopShop. Once the update begins the screen goes completely black and doesn’t come back on.

Usually I wait a while and then I have to force shutdown the computer and then afterwards (if the driver finished updating) everything is fine.

Anyone know a workaround for this or some better solution?

  • wesleyOP
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    3 months ago

    Well it’s happened multiple times now. I think it went wrong once and I did have to update within a TTY session to fix it.

    Maybe I should just do that by default. Still, it feels like I shouldn’t have to?

    • Nato Boram@lemmy.wtf
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      3 days ago

      It does feel like that! I remember having to do that on one of my Ubuntu installs because of Nvidia drivers. On my Pop!_OS, however, it doesn’t do that.

      I think you can use the TTY to update Nvidia drivers until the next major update of Pop!_OS and by then it should be fixed.