After updating driver, Ubuntu boots to the terminal windows..

Asked by joe P

I installed the recommended NVIDIA driver and restarted the PC. Now it boots to the terminal window....!!!

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Amal Bose (axatrikx) said :
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try using startx command.
also check this thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1667473

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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You may want to run:

less /var/log/Xorg.0.log

See what happened.

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joe P (jpiggeesr) said :
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Turned out, my video card was not getting enough power. After typing in "Startx" I was then able to see the error the was being generated. Provided more power, and viola... shes up and running again
Thanks so much for your help.