Nvidia: Xorg crashes on 15.04: "drmSetMaster failed: Invalid argument"
On a clean install of Ubuntu GNOME 15.04, I get the following screen after installing the Nvidia proprietary driver:
starting version 219
[ OK ] Started ACPI event daemon.
Starting ACPI event daemon...
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The last few lines from Xorg.0.log:
<snip>
[ 3.660] (II) intel(G0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[ 3.660] (II) intel(G0): [DRI2] DRI driver: i965
[ 3.660] (II) intel(G0): [DRI2] VDPAU driver: i965
[ 3.660] (II) intel(G0): direct rendering: DRI2 enabled
[ 3.660] (II) intel(G0): hardware support for Present enabled
[ 3.660] (EE) modeset(G1): drmSetMaster failed: Invalid argument
[ 3.660] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 3.660] (EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for gpu driver 1 -1
<snip>
[ 3.661] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
(complete log here)
I tried all available proprietary Nvidia drivers.
System specifications:
- OS: Ubuntu GNOME 15.04
- CPU: Intel i5-3570K
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
How can this error be resolved?