Saturday, April 30, 2016

drivers - Ubuntu 12.10: black screen after installing nvidia-current

COMPUTER: Macbook pro 7'1 (mid 2010)
GRAPHIC CARD: NVIDIA 320M



Today, after a fresh install of Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal, I installed the suggested nvidia drivers from terminal by running the following command:



sudo apt-get install nvidia-current



and then:



sudo nvidia-xconfig


But when I rebooted, after chosing Ubuntu from the boot loader, the screen was black and there was nothing I could do...



How can I fix this?







Thank you roadrm for your helpful answer, but I still cannot boot into a usable system even editing the kernel and adding the nomodeset string :( I managed to boot the 3.5.0-17, but my default kernel is the 3.5.0-25 so this doesn't help... I should probably add to the informations that before installing the nvidia-current I also entered the following commands:



sudo apt-get install Linux-source


And




sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic


In order to give The correct headers for the driver :(

No comments:

Post a Comment

11.10 - Can't boot from USB after installing Ubuntu

I bought a Samsung series 5 notebook and a very strange thing happened: I installed Ubuntu 11.10 from a usb pen drive but when I restarted (...