I got more complete information about my issue but still haven't been able to find a solution, any help is much appreciated. The longer second section is what is displayed after boot, still can't get a GUI to load only terminal. The first is some of the info I was able to get after logging into the terminal session.
$ Gksudo nvidia-settings (gksudo:2113): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: $ sudo ubunto-drivers devices [sudo] password for david: == /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/0000:01:00.0 == Modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001287sv00003842sd00003733bc03sc00i00 Vendor : NVIDIA Corporation Driver : nvidia-331-updates-distro non-free Driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-distro free builtin Driver : nvidia-331-distro non-free recommended X,Org X Server 1.15.1 Release Date: 2014-04-13 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux Cthulhu 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-37-generic root=UUI Build Date: 12 February 2015 02:49:29PM Xorg-servver 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7 (for technical support please see http:/ Current version of pixman: 0.30.2 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org To make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: “/var/log/Xorg.0.log”, Time Thu Jul 30 20:10:39 2015 (==)Using system config directory “/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d” Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension Initializing built-in extension SHAPE Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM Initializing built-in extension XInputExtention Initializing built-in extension XTest Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS Initializing built-in extension SYNC Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC Initializing built-in extension SECURITY Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA Initializing built-in extension XFIXES Initializing built-in extension RENDER Initializing built-in extension RANDR Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER Initializing built-in extension RECORD Initializing built-in extension DPMS Initializing built-in extension Present Initializing built-in extension DRI3 Initializing built-in extension X-Resource Initializing built-in extension XVideo Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation Initializing built-in extension SELinux Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtention Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI Initializing built-in extension DRI2 Loading extension GLX (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) no screens found(EE) (EE) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. (EE) Please also check the log file at “/var/log/Xorg.0.log” for addition (EE) (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
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