I tried through driver manager to change my graphics driver from the recommended nvidia-319 drivers to the nvidia-319-updates (which has worked fine in the past). I didn't get any kind of error messages or anything but it seems like it failed. Maybe because I was running too much stuff while trying to update it. Like a virtual machine and other programs.
On reboot x-server failed and it booted to just a command line.Using these instructions after some googling I was able to get it to boot back into a low graphics mode.
sudo apt-get autoremove nvidia-319*
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-319*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo update-grub
sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-319
(this command never worked, it always said nvidia-319 wasn't installed which makes sense to me since I uninstalled it?)
sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo reboot
After this it would reboot into low graphics mode using the x-server-xorg drivers. I then in driver manager changed to the recommended nvidia-319 (nvidia-319.32) drivers which then works after a reboot. If I then try to change them to the nvidia-319-updates (nvidia-319.60) x-server fails to boot and I'm back to where I was before. In the past the 319-updates have worked fine.
Throughout the whole process whenever trying to install drivers I would also see an error that the nvidia-319 drivers package were not configured properly. It would be an error mentioning the "dpkg" command saying use it to configure the drivers. But I could never figure out how to do that properly. So it seems like that might be the ongoing issue with this now?
I hope this made enough sense that somebody even knows where to start to help. Thanks!
