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I installed an Nvdia driver in Ubuntu 16.04. I have Nvdia 1060ti. I don't know how to enter through recovery mode. I tried every solution in this forum but I ended up with a black screen or screen freeze. Can you help me with this issue?

I came to this because Blender was not functioning properly.

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  • Have you tried with the boot option nomodeset ? If it gives you a working but simple graphics screen, you can continue and try with some nvidia proprietary driver for your graphics card. – sudodus Mar 20 '18 at 15:50
  • Can you guide me with this step by step? I would be thankfull... – Shrestha Bibash Mar 20 '18 at 15:51
  • The first step: boot with the boot option nomodeset: See the following link and links from it, Boot options; The second step: See the following link (the accepted answer with a green mark) and links from it, Black screen with nVidia drivers on ubuntu – sudodus Mar 20 '18 at 15:55
  • I am stuck since I am not able to use boot option nomodeset.. after i know what to do to use better gpu but i am stuck before going to that phase.. actually i got idea how to use nomodeset..thanks a lot.. i was unaware about the method...i am searching the correct way to use nomodeset... – Shrestha Bibash Mar 20 '18 at 16:08
  • What about this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2230389&p=13370808#post13370808 and links from it? If you get no grub menu in an installed system, you can try pressing the left 'upper-case' key during boot. – sudodus Mar 20 '18 at 16:13
  • I went to linux line and replaced 'quite splash' with 'nomodeset' and pressed 'ctrl x' but i could not boot. – Shrestha Bibash Mar 20 '18 at 16:22
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    That is the way to do it. If nomodeset does not work, you have to try something else, some other boot option might do it depending on your hardware. Please tell us about it, you can start with the computer's brand name and model. – sudodus Mar 20 '18 at 16:28
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    Dell inspiron 7577... nvdia 1060ti... – Shrestha Bibash Mar 20 '18 at 16:29
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    This seems to be a new computer. It means that you probably have better luck with the newest possible versions of Ubuntu, 17.10.1 or 'Bionic', which is still in the development phase, to be released April 2018 as 18.04 LTS. You can find 17.10.1 via the official Ubuntu web site, and Bionic via the ISO testing tracker. – sudodus Mar 20 '18 at 16:36
  • I am.using ubuntu 16.04 – Shrestha Bibash Mar 20 '18 at 16:40
  • Yes, and I suggest that you download, check with md5sum and create a boot drive of the two newer versions that I suggested in my previous comment. Dell computers are usually working well with Ubuntu (but I don't know your model). -- But even with the new versions you will probably need nomodeset because of the nvidia graphics. – sudodus Mar 20 '18 at 16:42
  • I found solution on my own...to.reboot.. thanks a lot.. – Shrestha Bibash Mar 20 '18 at 16:52

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I think this might be helpful... I installed Nvidia driver and restarted my computer. I got black screen in loop. The solution is to use other graphic card to boot. Cd or usb is not required for this. My solution is:

  1. As computer starts keep on pressing left Shift key.

  2. In order to edit grub2 press e.

  3. Then go to line starting with linux and enter i915.modeset=0 before quite slash.

    Since my choice was to use the Intel graphic card. I inserted that line. If it was amd/ati, radeon.modeset=0 could work. In some computer simply inserting nomodeset may work.

  4. Press Ctrl+x to reboot.

  5. Then wait for a while... After screen freezes press Ctrl+Alt+F1

  6. It asks for username and password. Enter them.

  7. Then terminal appears. Uninstall NVdia drivers using the command:

     sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

  8. Then type reboot... then your Ubuntu will boot...

This solution is just to enter the OS. Now follow proper method to install NVidia driver for better graphics.

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One possible way (that I used recently) to recover from wrong video driver and black screen is to use the option Try Ubuntu from an installation CD/USB. Then mount your root file system and use chroot to work against it instead of the live Ubuntu in RAM, and at this point purge the driver.

  1. Boot from Ubuntu installation media and choice Try Ubuntu.

  2. Find which is the partition where Ubuntu is installed (if it is LVM you should use /dev/<volume group>/<volume name>). Let's assume it is /dev/sda1 for the example.

  3. Open new terminal window and mount this partition to the directory /mnt:

    sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

  4. Then use mount to --bind: /dev to /mnt/dev, /proc to /mnt/proc and /sys to /mnt/sys:

    for f in dev proc sys ; do mount --bind /$f /mnt/$f ; done

  5. Then change the root directory:

    sudo chroot /mnt

  6. At this pint purge the NVidia driver:

    sudo apt remove --purge nvidia*

  7. Exit from the chroot, unmount and reboot the system:

    exit
sudo umount /mnt/sys
sudo umount /mnt/proc
sudo umount /mnt/dev
sudo umount /mnt
sudo systemctl reboot

References:

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