Help with lost GUI in Ubuntu 11.10

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook <phb at hbsys.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Ioannis, thanks for all your helpful input. nouveau didn't help a lot, but
> you gave me a good pointer with the removal of nvidia*. By invoking apt-get
> install with nvidia* I achieved a working system again, despite the
> literally hundreds of error messages. Obviously nvidia* was overkill, but
> not knowing the precise packages required....

Now when you are logged into X, you may uninstall all nvidia*
packages, then use the "Additional Drivers" GUI installer to install
the required packages, and then reboot.


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