Yay! I think this is the one that means unusually much to me, as the nouveau NVIDIA GTX 970 fix is part of it. Pretty much all popular Linux distros "fails" (bl

Yay! I think this is the one that means unusually much to me, as the nouveau NVIDIA GTX 970 fix is part of it. Pretty much all popular Linux distros "fails" (black screen on boot unless the nomodeset boot option is used) on this fairly common graphics card, until proprietary drivers are installed. Apparently 4.12 fixes a VRAM detection issue. I guess regarding the shenanigans by NVIDIA where they put 3.5 GB on this gfx card, and then 0.5 GB more in a slower variant (that I supposed is presented differently to the kernel). They went into a lot of trouble and bad PR for that so I think it's safe to say they won't do it again anytime soon. Here's the bug thread: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89664 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89664