The proprietary NVidia drivers for the GeForce GTX 750 are acting up again. Here’s the fix:
First verify that the wrong driver is in use:
lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] [10de:1381] (rev a2) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] [1462:3101] Kernel driver in use: nvidia
You should see nvidia as the kernel driver. If you’re here, you probably see nouveau and maybe a few others. Nouveau doesn’t work right with the GTX 750 and never has (and probably never will).
Download the NVidia 64-bit Linux driver. At the time of this writing, it’s at https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/145182
Install the driver. This is a two step process because the Nouveau driver is likely loaded by initramfs and needs to be removed. This requires a reboot.
sudo service lightdm stop sudo sh ./NVIDIA* # This is the driver you just downloaded sudo update-initramfs -u # purge nouveau driver from initramfs sudo reboot
If your graphics are running at the right resolution, you can stop here. If not, continue:
sudo service lightdm stop sudo sh ./NVIDIA* sudo service lightdm start
Source: https://askubuntu.com/questions/823304/ubuntu-16-04-nvidia-driver-works-until-reboot
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