Since the default distro installation didn't work for me, here's an alternative method.
- Ensure that the nvidia drivers are removed from the kernel mod blacklist by running
grep nvidia /etc/modprobe.d/* /lib/modprobe.d/*
and moving/deleting/commenting any files/lines that contain this reference. For me, this file was:/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf
- We need to disable the default Nouveau driver by creating
/etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf
that contains
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0