Ubuntu 12.04 terminal only after nvidia driver upgrade

Question

I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 (after getting tired of Windows). Installation went fine.

I had one problem when I got in suspend mode and then resumed my screen was scrambled. After some googling founds some tips to upgrade my nvidia drivers. I did this, and rebooted but only a terminal windows appears now instead of a graphical desktop.

Tried to fix it by several reboots, and removing xorg.conf, but still no luck. Any advice how to fix it and get my desktop back ?

score 14 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 28 '13 at 08:10

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After you've booted, press Ctrl+Alt+F1, and login using your credentials.
Remove all the nVidia drivers that you installed.
```
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*
```

Install the drivers again:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings

edited Oct 28 '13 at 08:10

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answered Sep 23 '12 at 09:14

green

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Thanks,this did the trick! And also suspend/resume now works properly! – user1613361 Sep 23 '12 at 09:27
This worked well enough for me to get workable video drivers back onto a machine that a user had made terminal-only by loading some drivers they found out about on a gaming site.
This brought the computer back with a full desktop after an extended boot but there were immediate errors from Compiz and some other 'system problems' as well.

I fired up the driver tool and swapped from the "current driver" to the first one on the list. Things were very snappy afterwards.

I have to ask:

Is using the x-swat repositories necessary?

Wouldn't simply reinstalling from the regular repository work?
– Olympic Softworks - Dave May 08 '13 at 05:43
@OlympicSoftworks-Dave I really do not know. I recomment ubuntu-x-swat because they provide stable upstream releases of X.org components. – green May 08 '13 at 08:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 28 '13 at 08:09

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Open a Terminal (with Ctrl+Alt+T )
Type this comment
```
sudo unity --reset
```
Wait.
Restart. And you are done! :)

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answered Sep 23 '12 at 08:34

hardeep singh

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Ubuntu 12.04 terminal only after nvidia driver upgrade

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