Lost my GUI in 14.10

[Henk Terhell]

The upgrade received today on Lubuntu 14.10 has fully resolved this problem.
Nvida-304.123 works OK now.
My thanks to the dev team.

Henk

Henk Terhell schreef op 1-9-2014 om 00:26:
> After purging driver NVIDIA-304 I got my desktop back with the default 
> nouveau driver.  However opening Firefox rapidly caused a screen freeze.
> The older NVIDIA-173 did the same after installing and rebooting. I 
> therefore switched back to NVIDIA-304.123 from the list and again no 
> GUI...
> So now I know (a) the absence of GUI was caused by the driver and (b) 
> none of the recommended video drivers for Lubuntu 14.10 beta can be 
> used on this Geforce 6100 card.
> For Lubuntu 14.04 (and 14.10 alpha) the recommended NVIDIA-304.117 
> does not cause any problems.
>
> Henk
>
> Henk Terhell schreef op 31-8-2014 om 14:20:
>> 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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