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I'm pretty new to the Linux System, I've installed Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS and I am more then satisfied. I'm web delevoper,and for the first time in my life everything worked right away.

I installed nvidia driver, because with default drivers video on Amazon was choppy. It worked great, I followed instruction to the letter. For few days everything was fine, and then one they I turned on my computer my screen was black and I could see only mouse pointer and system error message. I've read so many forum posts and tried everything.

I deleted nvidia drivers, installed and reinstalled default drivers, reinstalled desktop and triend some other things. Nothing seemd to help me, so I came here for help. I have some data and settings I would like to keep.

After some time console stopped opening and " CTRL + ALT + T " or with combination with F1 - F3 still wont open. But I do have acces to recovery mode.

Any help will be appriciated ? Thank you very much.

EDIT :

I downloaded official driver from nvidia site. I have nvidia gtx 960. My system is dual boot WINDOWS and Ubuntu, I have 16GB RAM DDR3, I have Intel i7-4790K and ASUS ROG motherboard. Windows is on SSD and Ubuntu on HDD, it has its own partition, but windows uses another partition from the same drive as storage.

To remove nvidia drivers I used sudo apt-get remove --purge "nvidia-*".

Djordje Rajic
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I suggest removing all of the NVIDIA-related packages. This should reset X to use the nouveau driver. This will at least get your graphics back in order to troubleshoot. Here's how to do that:

  1. Power off your computer. Then turn it on while holding down the shift key. This will bring up the grub menu. Use the arrow keys and enter to go to " Advanced Options", then the first line ending in "Recovery Mode" (most likely the second line.)

  2. Now a menu should come up. Select "Drop to root shell prompt". This prompt has root access, so be careful.

  3. Mount your home partition with mount -o remount,rw /

  4. Now, run apt-get remove --purge "nvidia-*". This will remove all packages starting with nvidia-, which will include all the drivers.
  5. Reboot with by running reboot, and pray that nouveau starts properly.
willem.hill
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