Lost my GUI in 14.10

Henk Terhell hterhell at chello.nl
Sun Aug 31 12:20:37 UTC 2014


Is there a command to switch back from nvdia 304 to the default graphic 
driver? Just to see whether this will gives me a GUI.

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall doesn't work

Henk

Henk Terhell schreef op 30-8-2014 om 14:31:
> Reinstalled the latest ISO of Lubuntu 14.10 i386 today. After 
> updating/upgrading and installing NVDIA 304 driver, the blank screen 
> problem persists and thereafter I can only enter terminal mode after 
> alt-F1.
>
> Henk
>
> Henk Terhell schreef op 29-8-2014 om 20:58:
>> Hi Israel
>>
>> the output is: lightdm is already the newest version
>> (no upgrade or install done)
>>
>> I recall that I had to install all versions of lubuntu on this PC 
>> (with Geforce 6100/nForce 405 graphic card) with nomodeset and 
>> installed the nvdia driver 304 thereafter, because of immediate 
>> screen freezes without nomodeset.  Perhaps there is a link to my 
>> problem of the latest update of 14.10.
>>
>> Henk
>>
>> Israel schreef op 29-8-2014 om 19:56:
>>> On 08/29/2014 12:09 PM, Henk Terhell wrote:
>>>> The output file on startx is attached.
>>>>
>>>> Henk
>>>>
>>>> Brendan Perrine schreef op 29-8-2014 om 18:38:
>>>>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:30:16 +0200
>>>>> Henk Terhell <hterhell at chello.nl> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> for which a patch is underway). However, with the update of 14.10 
>>>>>> today
>>>>> It may be helpful to find out why and what error messages happen 
>>>>> when startx is used so people can understand what the error is.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Henk,
>>> That is truly an odd error to have.. it is almost as if no display 
>>> manager is installed.
>>> Can you double check to make sure you have a display manager installed?
>>> Simply,
>>> sudo apt-get install ligthdm
>>> Should be enough to get an idea.
>>> Usually the display manager takes care of hooking the tty to X.
>>> This is just my first guess here...
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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