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I get a blank screen on boot since updating my graphics driver. The wireless indicator is on and working but the other elements of the desktop are missing and I can't do anything. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.

My system is HP Pavillion dm4 Processor: Intel (R) Core (TM) i3-2310M CPU 2.10GHz

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I finally get it to work by reinstalling the ubuntu-desktop package. Here is what i did:

  1. Booted into recovery mode with the most recent kernel (something like Ubuntu with Linux 3.2.0-25-generic-pae (recovery mode))
  2. After the recovery mode has finished loading the recovery options, I chose to boot with networking on and then selected Drop to root shell prompt

  3. I entered the command 

    sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
  4. I rebooted

And bingo that did it. Thanks to this article too

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If you have another machine connected to the same network, try to connect to the machine, check the logs /var/log/Xorg.0.log. You might need to change the graphics the acceleration to SNA/EXA/UXA. Unfortunatelly, I can't give you a valid config file, because my HDD died a few days ago.

Pavol Polacko
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