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I am trying to install Nvidia Driver 384.59. in 16.04 LTS. I bought a Nvidia 1050TI graphics card, which works in Windows 10, but Ubuntu can't start a UI. - or rather it tries - I see the GUI login prompt for a second or two, hear a "clunk" on my speakers, and the screen clears to black with a blinking cursor, (no prompt) in the upper left corner.

It will give me the recovery boot menu, and then a text box that I'm in low graphics mode. after that all choices seem to lead to the "flash of a GUI"- CLUNK- black screen. I have tried to use "drop to root prompt", but the file system is read only, so I can't use apt to upgrade my drivers.

Robert M Luby Jr
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    Boot with `nomodeset`, then install drivers from Ubuntu repos or from a PPA. Don't install them from a `.run` file. – Pilot6 Aug 17 '17 at 20:33
  • you can make RW if you follow the the recommended topic. But it doesn't help in your original problem with the nvidia driver. The solution might be: check whether the `bumblebee` package is installed or its config file is presented. Remove the package and delete the config file. [Details are here](https://askubuntu.com/questions/760997/how-to-recover-from-a-nvidia-fail-on-ubuntu-16-04#answer-907869) – Zoltán Süle Aug 25 '18 at 11:13

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You need to remount the file system by the

mount -o remount,rw /

command to get it writable.

Pilot6
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