[Solved]Mint 18.1 - Cinnamon just crashed. You are currently running in Fallback Mode

[ioannis]

Hello,

I'm trying to get Linux Mint 18.1 to work on my Asus N552VX laptop. The issue is that whenever I try to install the nvidia proprietary drivers, after the reboot, I receive the following error:
"Cinnamon just crashed. You are currently running in Fallback Mode. Do you want to restart Cinnamon?"
If I press Yes to restart cinnamon, it keeps displaying the message.
When I switch back to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau display driver, cinnamon doesn't crash anymore but I always have to start it with acpi=off and nomodeprobe as it freezes during startup (at the logo).
Here is the output of inxi -Gx

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inxi -Gx
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel Skylake Integrated Graphics bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Card-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: nvidia,nouveau,intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.02hz
           GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A

Could you please advise?

Thank you!

LE: You can mark this as solved. It seems that after I ran the following command:

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sudo prime-select intel

Cinnamon didn't crash anymore.

[Flemur]

LE: You can mark this as solved.

Hi - thanks for posting the solution! But you're supposed to mark it "solved" - by editing the title of your first post (yes, it's a bit awkward and not obvious).

[ioannis]

Thank you for your remarks! I edited the post accordingly.