Boot freeze (black screen) when booting without power cable (ubuntu gnome 16.04 / Dell XPS15)

Question

I noticed some errors since yesterday. When I plugged in my power cable, my laptop froze (couldn't do anything besides a hard reboot).

When I tried to boot without power cable, I get a black screen after I log in to my account (so I do see the login screen)

When I boot with power cable, no problem. When I unplug power cable, no problem. When I plug power cable in again... freeze

I have my laptop for just 7 days, it's a fresh install. I only installed "tlp" as that was recommanded for handling power management.

I have a 512 GB SSD, nvidia GTX 1050, no touchscreen

Oh and I have a dual boot with windows 10. Windows doesn't have any of these issues.

I really have no clue what the issue can be.

Possible duplicate of My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? — Pilot6, Jul 26 '17 at 06:07
Related: https://askubuntu.com/questions/939764/how-do-i-sanity-check-my-acpi-tables — Elder Geek, Jul 27 '17 at 13:18

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 26 '17 at 14:50

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I "fixed" it by replacing the nouveau driver with the nvidia driver. Now the problems are completely gone.

I guess I now need to read up on how to make sure that nvidia won't drain my battery...

If anybody knows any better methods that don't involve a nonfree driver, let me know.

edited Jul 26 '17 at 14:50

Zanna

answered Jul 25 '17 at 22:52

Roeland Creve

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