[Redenbacher]

I installed Ubuntu yesterday, everything was running fine. This morning when I awoke things seemed a bit choppy, so I went to reinstall the nvidia drivers. Once uninstalled, I restarted Ubuntu to install them again, but Ubuntu would not load the login, not even a command prompt to log in.

I need to replace the xconf file with the back up I made of it last night, that is what is causing the issue, however no terminal will start up, no chance to log in, just a black screen with a blinking cursor and no commands will work. Any ideas?

[vtel57]

Boot into Ubuntu SAFE mode. When your GRUB menu appears on the screen at startup, choose the failsafe mode. This will boot you into Ubuntu in Run Level 3 (no X running). At the command line, restore your backed up xorg.conf or use this command:

$ dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver

to create a new xorg.conf.

What probably happened is that when you uninstalled the Nvidia drivers, the xorg.conf does not get modified, so it's still trying to load nvidia as the driver for X.

You can also just edit your current xorg.conf to use the driver nv instead of nvidia. This might get X to start for you.

[Redenbacher]

Thanks again vtel, I managed to fix it. For some reason editing X wasn't happening, so I had to reboot in recovery mode and install the drivers through there, now everything is running smooth

[vtel57]

Cool beans! Glad you got it working again.

Have FUN!