Recently I did some updates and when I restarted, my display stayed blank. I figured it was because the update so I switched my monitor over to the motherboard's port. I'm currently using integrated graphics to troubleshoot this issue.
glxinfo | grep -i vendor
shows Mesa Project and SGI and Intel open source.
When I checked the driver manager, it said the Nvidia drivers were installed and being used, but when I ran nvidia-smi, no output showed. I first tried reinstalling the Nvidia drivers by doing:
sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
and rebooting, but nvidia-smi still displays nothing.
Then I tried blacklisting the open source drivers which it may have defaulted to. In that process, I noticed there was no xorg.conf file where it should have been, only xorg.conf.backup and xorg.conf.failsafe, etc. So I ran
cp xorg.conf.backup xorg.conf
and that only made matters worse - on boot it wasn't able to detect display settings and some menu came up about configuration but my mouse/keyboard stopped working. I mounted the filesystem and reverted the changes I made, so that's where I'm at now.
Something is goofy here, because lsmod | grep nouveau returns some lines (video, wmi, drm, ttm, ...) but nvidia still shows nothing.
doing:
grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log
gives a list of modules - glx, intel, modesetting, fbdev, vesa, fbdevhw,...
How do I get my system to recognize the correct Nvidia drivers and fix my xorg.conf?
update; grep "EE\|WW" /var/log/Xorg.0.log gives this:
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
I think it has something to do with installing ubuntu-desktop at some point...
