[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 738789] Re: Ubuntu won't finish boot after nVidia proprietary driver install

2011-07-28 Thread barnex
I have a similar problem. After upgrading my ubuntu 11.04 to kernel 2.6.38-10, the nvidia-current driver stopped working. I upgraded my system with the normal software updates. I had to remove the driver (with jockey, over ssh) to get my display back. Before that I could not even get into a tt

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 485700] Re: kdm does not start (karmic, kde 4.3.3)

2009-12-07 Thread barnex
This might indeed be a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/491483 I did have gdm installed but was using kdm, which might have caused the problem. -- kdm does not start (karmic, kde 4.3.3) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485700 You received this bug notificati

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 485700] Re: kdm does not start (karmic, kde 4.3.3)

2009-12-07 Thread barnex
I can confirm this on my macbook 1,1 with an intel GMA950. X broke after some update: I also had only stripes on the screen and this even affected all tty consoles. I could only boot back into a console by first chrooting from a live CD and removing kdm. The problem seems indeed xorg/driver related