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My problem is that more often than not, when I boot into Ubuntu 12.04 it brings me to the Command-line prompt and asks for my login. After logging in I have to either try using 

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.confg

Or

Reinstall the Nvidia 310 drivers in order to get my GUI back.

The error that the terminal puts out is 0 Screens found. I am quite confused as to why that is. Is it because I have a DVI input? But after using the sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.confg command or reinstalling the Nvidia 310 drivers, it's works fine until next boot.

It's a bit inconvenient so if someone knows a fix to this, it'd be so so appreciated.

I apologize if there already is a question like this posted, but I did check and I couldn't see anything from what I saw.

I originally installed the Nvidia drivers using the jockey. (Additional Drivers) However now when I have to reinstall the drivers I just use the .run file from the website.

$ dkms status
nvidia, 310.32, 3.2.0-36-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-experimental-310, 310.14, 3.2.0-36-generic, x86_64: installed.

$ lspci -nnk | grep -IEA3 vga
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:1188] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:095b]
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidia_experimental_310, nouveau, nvidiafb

Further system information:

  • Alienware Aurora R4
  • X79 Intel Chipset motherboard
  • CPU: i7-3990K @ 3.20Ghz x 12
  • GPU: Nvidia GTX 690
  • Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.
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I believe you've somehow messed up the system with two Nvidia drivers installed on the same kernel, as shown by the dkms status output. While the kernel module may load correctly, the "userland" Xorg part of the drivers are probably not matching the kernel module version now. Similar issue here: nvidia drivers fail completely after update to 3.5.019

The card you have (Nvidia GeForce GTX 690) is perfectly supported by the current drivers shipped with Ubuntu (304 series). Installing the experimental drivers and mixing up with non-packages is very likely to break stuff as you've noticed, and confuse the package management. Lesson for the future: stick with packages from Ubuntu and if you do install Nvidia's driver from their site, uninstall the Ubuntu package.

I've already written an answer to this very similar issue/question posted. From the comments you reported this to be working. So, here is the reference to the answer:

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