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Alright, good to know what is going on. Removing the nvidia driver and reinstalling the kernel didn't change anything; the same x server fail happens. I'll just upgrade to 18.3, thanks!

Installing 3.13.0-139 isn't the solution apparently, since that just boots to a blank black screen, without any error messages. Any ideas?

Following https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=261343 , I updated my kernel from 3.19.0-32 to 4.4.0-109. The update went fine, but when booting the new kernel, it fails to get to the login screen, and after a few tries, says that Xserver failed to boot with: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed ...

Not a fix, but 'solved' this by reverting back to the 370.28 drivers from the graphics-drivers ppa.

Since updating to nvidia-375 drivers, my secondary screen isn't working with laptop any more, where it used to be fine before (with nvidia-367 drivers, I think). The primary screen works fine, but the second screen displays either nothing, or a garbled version of the primary display, no cursor. I've...

Thanks for the comment, switching from the nvidia drivers to the nouveau drivers seemed to do the trick, Xorg and cinnamon load are now back to ~2% each, and the whole system is running way more fluently again.

Hi, I'm currently running LM 14 Nadia on a laptop, with a Intel C2D P8700 and a Nvidia GT240M. When idle, the cpu-usage varies between 20-50% constantly, for both cores. Looking at the processes in the System Monitor, it seems that Xorg (25-35%) and Cinnamon (~10%) are the culprits. I assume that th...