Ubuntu :: NVIDIA Drivers Kill Graphical Interface?
Aug 22, 2010
I'm quite new to ubuntu and I don't speak the language yet (sorry), I'm also new to this forum, is it okay to just post a request for help? Normally I can find all the info I need with a google search but I don't even know where to start with this one.
I seem to have killed the entire installation and I'm not sure what to do. I'm not even sure what information to provide. I'm running 10.4 LTS on a pretty standard laptop, i3-330M CPU, nvidia geforce GT 325M (I mention this because I think it's part of the problem). I just re-installed clean from the live CD (I also have a windows partition), everything worked fine. Then I downloaded and installed all updates the system suggested and I also used the proprietary drivers gizmo to DL and activate the nvidia package. When I restarted the system the OS would not start, recovery mode will not start either.
I get my grub screen as usual, select Ubuntu, it moves to a blank screen with blinking curser as usual, then goes completely grey and appears to hang. I think the graphical interface is not initialising. I'm assuming it's either a problem with the nvidia driver directly or the nvidia driver has done something to xserver that prevents it from starting. It might also be one of the updates, or I did think perhaps it was just the updates taking effect on restart, I left it hanging on the grey screen for an hour and still nothing, it couldn't take longer than that could it? I can dismount grub to a command prompt but it doesn't seem to understand normal commands.
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May 17, 2011
I'm running the latest Xubuntu and can't seem to kill the xserver to install the nvidia dev drivers. where I could find the program to kill the server? I tried Top and it kept coming back!
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Jan 8, 2010
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title Fedora (2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_undertaker-lv_root LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet selinux=0
rdblacklist=nouveau
initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64.img
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I would like to uninstall GDM, and place whatever GDM uses to start the graphical interface into the /ect/rc2.d startup scripts. I know GDM does other stuff then just logs me in and starts the graphical user interface, and I think I would like to maintain some of that, but I think I would like to manually insert the startup sequence in the startup scripts. Question one, can someone tell me where to look to find out what GDM is doing now so I can attempt to replicate it?
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(hd0,1) Windows 7, NTFS, primary
(hd0,2) Windows XP, NTFS, primary
(hd0,3) Extended
(hd0,4) /root, EXT3, logical
(hd0,5) /home, EXT3, logical
(hd0,6) swap, logical
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