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I was trying to install the latest driver from nvidia. Since it wasn't in the additional drivers tab in software and updates, I downloaded it as a .run file on the nvidia website. Then I followed the accepted answer from this question: How do I install the latest NVIDIA drivers from the .run file?

I switched to the noveau driver and did ctrl+alt+f1

sudo su

when I executed sudo service gdm stop I got a blank screen.

I did a hard shutdown and restarted, got to an ubuntu splash screen with "Ctrl+C to stop checking the filesystem". Whether I do Ctrl+C or not, it eventually goes to a blank screen. Doing ctrl+alt+f2 does nothing, all I can do is hard shutdown.

I can get into recovery mode from grub and was trying to follow this answer Help fixing graphics card driver?, but it doesn't find nvidia-current so I'm not sure if it would work in my case.

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I followed this guide and also switched back to the proprietary driver when I was able to access the software & updates window and it reverted back to how it was. https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-black-screen-solution

Now back to trying to figure out how to update the driver without getting a black screen...

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