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After upgrading to 14.04 from 12.04 my laptop (Asus X552c) got sluggish, especially when on Google chrome. So I was looking for a solution and found this thread.

I followed the instructions of user1429166 and did the following:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings

but I didn't go for that "extra drivers" that user1429166 suggested .. and rebooted and it was fine then I went for the extra drivers and changed the default one ( 'nouveau xorg server..') and set it to "Nvidia something..." and installed... after that I tried to reboot but each time it's stuck forever at this:

* Starting Adaptive readahead daemon preload     [OK]

But I can still use

Ctrl+Alt+F1 to access tty and it just works fine but if I try Ctrl+Alt+F7 to access the GUI screen, it doesn't work. So I reboot and we are back to the beginning.

I figured that it's of course something to do with that "Extra driver" thing that I did.

Someone please help asap !

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Remove the PPA if it doesn't work for you

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

After that, the open source drivers will be used and you can use again your GUI.

If not, install the driver

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current nvidia-settings
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

After that you could ask a new question with a list of your hardware, especially your graphic.

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