Black Screen after update last night

[Scimitar]

I am new - used to use Kubuntu back when nvidia drivers did not function for my old card now back with new hardware and love 9.10!

However I have a problem that I can not fix on my own. Loaded 9.10 on my machine a week ago run great. last night had an update and now it boots to a black screen. I did a fresh install, needed an update of 120 files after that update did a reboot and back to the black screen.

Any idea what file I need to exclude from the update or what process I should take to find out?

Scimitar

[dibl]

Re: Black Screen after update last night

You are correct to suspect a video driver problem, I think. There is a report here of a problem with a recent dist-upgrade:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3106416.0

If your System>Hardware Drivers is not installing a working Nvidia driver, then you probably will have to install it manually. Here is the process (disregard obsolete version numbers):

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...4892#msg164892

Hope this helps.

[Scimitar]

Re: Black Screen after update last night

ok I tried to go back to the packages and that did not work...I did a fresh install after the update so I am assuming that they are gone. I tried to install NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.32-pkg1.run but the nvidia installer says there is an error there as well. lol

I can do an install and use the nv driver...not really worth using like that. is there a way to get the nvidia 190 driver in another format besides the .run?

[dibl]

Re: Black Screen after update last night

I am so sorry, Scimitar -- I did not realize I screwed up the link until I tried it myself.

Try the link to the installation procedure again. Follow the step-by-step, and you should end up with a working driver.

Yes, you could install and configure the "nv" driver, but you're not going to like it much, I would guess. No 3D, no eye-candy ....

The driver is proprietary to Nvidia -- they release it in the .run packages, so that's what we get. *buntu packages it in nvidia-glx packages, which I have not used in a long time -- that's what the "Hardware Drivers" utility is supposed to pull in. But if it doesn't work, you are going to need to become of student of installing it yourself. Do it three times, and you'll be a master!