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Ubuntu 10.04 Blank Screen on startup. Is the graphics card the problem? EN9500GT

Asked by Andrew Hughes-Games

Hi I am new to Ubuntu. I recently had Ubuntu 10.04 installed on my computer. It worked great the first day, second day it was freezing a bit then it froze a bit on the third day it froze and a bunch of text started to appear on a black screen. I restarted and ended up getting tty2 which I guess is the terminal.
I logged on as my user. From the research I have done I think that it might be related to my graphics card? I have a EN9500GT.
The rest of my system is as follows.
A-Data 2GB DDR2
Asus P5QL Pro
Intel C2Q 2.33ghz
WD5000AAKS

EDIT: I tried 'startx' mainly because I didn't know any better and got a bunch of gibberish. The part that hints at some sort of error seems to be "(EE) Microsoft Mocrosoft(R) 2.4 GHz Transceiver v6.0 failed to initialize for relative axes...."
I am new to ubuntu so you will have to speak slowly
Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you uninstall the nvidia driver is it better?

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Andrew Hughes-Games (andrewhughesgames) said : 		#2

Can you describe to me how I can uninstall the nvida driver when I don't have a gui?
Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Try:

sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-current; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

Should do it

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Andrew Hughes-Games (andrewhughesgames) said : 		#4

It says coundn't find package nvida-current...... 0 upgraded or installed removed etc.
By the way how would I start the gui had that removed my graphics card driver?
Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

ok, run:

dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia

what is output?

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Andrew Hughes-Games (andrewhughesgames) said : 		#6

ii nvidia-173-modaliases 173.14.22-Oubuntu11 Modaliases for the Nvidia binary x.org drive

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Andrew Hughes-Games (andrewhughesgames) said : 		#7

ii nvidia-96-modaliases 96.43.17-Oubuntu1.1 Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org drive

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Andrew Hughes-Games (andrewhughesgames) said : 		#8

ii nvidia-common 0.2.23 Finde obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-current-modaliases 195.36.24-Oubuntu1~10.04.1 Modaliases for the ........

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#9

that's fine, try the boot option

nouveau.blacklist=1

May help

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Andrew Hughes-Games (andrewhughesgames) said : 		#10

Sorry you have to be more explicit. I need the full command. I tried:
nouveau.blacklist=1 -- didn't work
boot nouveau.blacklist=1 -- didn't work
Where do we go from here. This is a clean install of ubuntu which I had done by a professional and it is broken after three days. Likely to be a bug, can i file a report?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#11

Remove the boot options:

quiet splash

So you can watch the boot...

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