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Nvidia driver for Ubuntu 18.10 on Thinkpad T480

2018/12/14

I installed Ubuntu 18.10 on my new Thinkpad T480. However, the system froze every time after I logged in. It turned out to be the problem of Nvidia driver. After its freezing, I also could not use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to use the shell to reboot. But later I realized that I need to turn on FnLock to use the F1 to F12 keys. Finally, this post solved my problem. The steps are below:

  1. Turn on the laptop and press Shift or Esc during boot to show the GRUB menu
  2. Press e and edit the line starting with linux adding nouveau.modeset=0 at the end of the line
  3. Press F10 to boot
  4. Once logged in successfully, go to Activities (top left corner) Drivers and install suggested Nvidia driver.

Now it should work without any problems. I did not check whether the GRUB menu still has my edits.