Hello everyone ... did anybody had a lot of trouble on configuring an nvidia card on ubuntu 16.10?
I already came from Fedora 24, and ubuntu 16.04.1, because on these it would simply not work at all. Now with 16.10, I am able to install it, even via gui (System -> Administration -> Additional Drivers).
It worked perfectly for a day, then it crashed ... and aftewards, I can only boot into black screen (I can hear the startup sound), but ctrl + alt + F1 does not give me a console screen. What I usually have to do to reach a terminal through normal boot is use "nomodeset" in the kernel line, which does not let me use the UI (correct user+passwd don't work), but on the other hand this let's me ctrl + alt + F1 into a terminal.
After reading the instruction from ubuntu/nvidia https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia, I tried using Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP" on the Section Screen for nvidia in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but that didn't work. I also tried again that, but also runned nvidia-xconfig: didn't work. I tried blacklisting nouveau and other buffers (vga16fb, nouveau, rivafb, rivatv), that didn't work. I also tried turning nouveau off on the kernel command line, but that didn't work; turning nouveau off and also nvidia on ... didn't work.
I still think the issue has something to do with: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24/+bug/82312, but I don't really know what else can I try.
I dual boot with windows 8.1 (works perfectly ... I do get a similar black screen when booting, but in 10 sec the system is already booted), and my recomended nvidia driver is version 367 since I use a Gforce GT 735M. Moreover, I have legacy off in my BIOS settings.
Another note, would be that I had no issues on Ubuntu 14.04 with this. Just used the option on Aditional Drivers ... and voalá.
Ideas?