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No clue why, but my computer crapped out after playing TF2, so I looked online. X.org couldn't find displays, so I did what a person said and they said reinstall the drivers for the GPU (GeForce 210). I uninstall them, reboot, and the GUI works as normal, but at 800x600 with no options to change. I install the drivers again (nvidia-340) and reboot. Now I'm back to square one.

Can someone help?

  • Ctrl+Alt+F1(F1 to F6) and then enter this command 'lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D' ' What is the output? – Ashu Mar 12 '16 at 23:38
  • What did this do? It showed my GPU and showed the kernel driver in use is "Nvidia". –  Mar 12 '16 at 23:40
  • Full output please. You can edit the question if needed. – Ashu Mar 12 '16 at 23:41

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Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to deactivate the interface and run:

sudo startx
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  • I get an error saying "no screens found(EE)". –  Mar 12 '16 at 23:00
  • i found something in here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/228212/no-desktop-after-installation-of-nvidia-drivers?rq=1

    and here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/202574/desktop-does-not-show-when-i-installed-nvidia-drivers

     – Daniel Mar 12 '16 at 23:11
  • This did nothing for me. It is literally telling me the same stuff that I said I already did (reinstall drivers). –  Mar 12 '16 at 23:18