If it's of any help, when I had upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 in its first beta release, I found that deleting the xorg.conf allowed me to login in low graphics mode. I wouldn't know if it's still the case, however, but perhaps it's worth trying.
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 13:31 +0000, David Wynn wrote: > This has actually happened frequently in the past -- that the legacy > nvidia drivers get abandoned for a time. Previously, the problem had > always eventually gotten fixed. However, this is something that we > should warn people about. At least in my experience, using the > nvidia-96 drivers in Maverick will not allow you any graphic > capabilities. You will be dropped to a command line, but will not be > given a chance to switch to lower graphic capabilities, as in previous > versions of Ubuntu. (In Lucid and some previous releases, when nvidia > was not working, it would ask to use low-graphics mode. This does not > happen in Maverick, even though I have nv and nouveau installed) > -- dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: miEmptyData https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616394 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
