Ubuntu 21.10 freezes during boot when using nvidia drivers

First time actually asking a question here, but I've dug through 20 or so threads on this forum and others and can't find anything.

Basically, the issue is that when I try to use my GPU on my laptop (an ACER Predator, the GPU is an RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q), it freezes on the startup screen (specifically the Predator logo above the Ubuntu logo, no spinning dots).

It does this when I use any proprietary driver, including all of these: The Software & Updates window showing the Additional Drivers tab. It shows the device, "NVIDIA Corporation: GA106M GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q", and then the options for drivers below. and installing nvidia-driver-460 from the command line. All of them freeze in the same place when booting. Adding nomodeset in GRUB hasn't worked as a temporary or permanent solution, but booting with the other kernel option GRUB provides (5.13.0-23 instead of 5.12.0-25) does get me in when using the nvidia-driver-460-server driver. It's a bit buggy though, with missing animations in GNOME and some other issues. Also, I can't actually use the drivers- NVIDIA Prime is missing.

My current method of fixing the problem each time so I can try something else is by using GRUB to get into recovery mode and doing sudo apt remove --purge nvidia*, then rebooting. None of the ctrl+alt+f1 keys work when it freezes.

Let me know if you have anything else I can try, or need any more information. I've tried a lot of things, and some of them probably escape me right now. I also did have it working for a little bit, but when I restarted my computer it was broken again and I honestly forget what it was I did back then. Thank you!

I was having the same issue. I solved it by installing the liquorix kernel as indicated here: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/mouse-freezes-geforce-rtx-3060-with-either-ubuntu-22-04-or-mint-21/227375/4

This is the website of the liquorix kernel: https://liquorix.net/

Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.

This installation instructions for Ubuntu are:

1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:damentz/liquorix && sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install linux-image-liquorix-amd64 linux-headers-liquorix-amd64

After installing the liquorix kernel, I installed the latest nvidia driver, which by the time of this writing was (nvidia-driver-520):

1. sudo apt install nvidia-driver-520

Hope it helps.

Update:

There is one more thing I found to help in this issue. After executing the steps mentioned above, do the following:

Go to settings -> power and set the options this way:

Why?

It seems like the issue is related to the drivers or the power supply of the graphics card. After applying these settings it hasn't frozen.

This also happens on Windows, see: https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/Aurora-R12-keeps-freezing/td-p/8154258