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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by singlow on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:53AM (#14003760)
I had this same problem. I switched back to nouveau drivers for my Nvidia card, instead of the proprietary drivers, and everything works perfectly. I also seem to be getting better overall performance in day-to-day desktop activities and battery life. I don't really do anything that needs 3d other than the desktop compositor.

When I was using he non-open-source drivers, Ctrl-Alt-F# to change virtual terminals would sometimes help. I would switch to a random virtual terminal and back and sometimes it would be working again.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by karlmdavis on Friday March 31, 2017 @10:38AM (#14004215)
Sadly, the ctrl+alt+f# trick doesn't work for me (OP). I wish!

And btw (should have mentioned this): ThinkPad W530 running nVidia drivers.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by thrownblown on Friday March 31, 2017 @11:14AM (#14004621)
nVidia soft hang issues are super annoying. since mine is always plugged in, i just set my laptop to never suspend.
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