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Installed Ubuntu 14.04 with acpi=off, nolapic, and nomodeset to get it to skirt around my discreet graphics card only to find it running super slow. The frame rate was terrible. So I decided to install vvidia drivers. I downloaded the .run and made it executable with chmod. It wouldn't let me start it with X server running so I terminated that process. Boom, GUI gone. I did some weird trickery to get it back. I'll include the links of the different places I took advice from:

apt-get stuck at 0 [Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com] Blank screen after installing nvidia restricted driver

There are a few others but those are the major ones. I'm totally new at this. But I'm committed and I want to learn linux. I just don't know the right commands to rebuild my GUI and properly install my video card. It took me FOREVER to get it installed in the first place.

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You don't have to waste your time installing it from source. Those drivers are available (as most software is) directly from the Ubuntu repositories precompiled and optimized for your version of Ubuntu.

You can log into a text session at any time by pressing CTRL + ALT + F2 or you can use F1, F3, F4 whatever.

Sign in with your username and password and then, execute the following commands to get started:

sudo apt-get update

Now, you can choose to install it from apt-get with the following command:

sudo apt-get install nvidia nvidia-updates

when you are done with install, reboot.

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