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I have ubuntu 14.04.1 64bit installed with intel and nvidia video cards .
I'm using xorg-edgers ppa to graphics drivers .
Today i got an update for the drivers (i think it was the mesa drivers) .
when restarting I got the error in this thread Error

I clicked ok and in the next screen i choose : "reconfigure graphics" .
after that rebooting to ubuntu doesn't even reach the lightdm screen and i get black screen with the white coursor in the top left screen , and stays like that .

I tried almost all of the answers in the link above , but didn't help .
More info :
1 - When i choose failsafe x from the recovery menu i get the output :
(EE) fatal server error :
(EE) no screens found
(EE) please contact the xorg foundation .....
after a couple of seconds it returns to the recovey menu .
2 - in one of the answers they talked about /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file , which i couldn't even find .

What could be the problem ?

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saeed hardan
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after a couple of months with no answers in any "ubuntu" community , i tried to : 

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get upgrade

since after a couple of months there sure would be kernel update and drivers , and it was , i just waited for the system to install ~400mb new packages , hoping everything would be ok , guess what, it didn't .

The solution to my problem is : wipe the partition and reinstall ubuntu .
It kindda makes you wonder that an update can break the OS like that , well at least now i understand the blue screen of death for windows .

saeed hardan
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  • What made you switch to "xorg-edgers" ppa instead of the officially supported Nvidia driver? The tested Nvidia drivers should work. ppa-purge of that repo and apt-get upgrade may have fixed it. – NoBugs Jan 24 '16 at 04:50
  • wow this was old , but at the time the drivers in ubuntu ppa were old xorg-edgers had much newer ones .now i'm using ubuntu's ppa cause they are using new ones on ubuntu 15.04 . – saeed hardan Jan 24 '16 at 08:17