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xserver-xorg-video-nv package

Nvidia Driver for Ubuntu, installed but not in use

Asked by Dan

So installed the Nvidia-256 driver from the website onto my computer ( Sony Vaio F series laptop with a Geforce 330 vid card). And upon reboot my screen resolution drops to 680x400 when my screen does upto 1920x1080. After reading into the issue i went into the terminal and typed in nvidia-xconfig and rebooted. Now the screen goes black upon bootup. Im lost as to why this happened and would like to be able to get into ubuntu and have my vid card working properly. any help would be appreciated.

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#1

system- admin. - hardware drivers after install of drivers restart . then system - admin. - nvidia x server setting would fix it .

 got to remember ubuntu is nothing like windows it`s simple .

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Dan (lemonyfresh18) said : 		#2

how can i get the xserver working again? i only can get up a terminal in recovery mode.

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Dan (lemonyfresh18) said : 		#3

how can i get the xserver working again? i only can get up a terminal in recovery mode.

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#4

Here are the steps:

1. Boot your computer up with Ubunto CD
2. Go through all the process until you reach "[!!!] Disk Partition"
3. Select Manual Partition
4. Mount your appropriate linux partions

/
/boot
swap
.....

5. DO NOT FORMAT THEM.
6. Finish the manual partition
7. Say "Yes" when it asks you to save the changes
8. It will give you errors saying that "the system couldn't install ....." after that
9. Ignore them, keep select "continue" until you get back to the Ubuntu installation menu
10. Jump to "Install Grub ...."
11. Once it is finished, just restart your computer

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