Same issue but I do have a running unity. After upgrading from 10.10 if I log in not changing from the unity desktop, the background wallpaper displays but nothing else. A completely blank screen...
*-display description: VGA compatible controller product: NV37GL [Quadro FX 330/GeForce PCX 5300] vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a2 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 resources: irq:18 memory:d0000000-d0ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d1000000-d1ffffff memory:d2000000-d201ffff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/771788 Title: nVidia driver activated and apparently being used but reported as not being used by jockey-gtk -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs