Mint update killed my video
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85stang
Mint update killed my video
I noticed an update last week contained some kind of Nvidia stuff. yesterday i reboot my computer and now I have no video signal on the login screen. The graphical grub and the boot meter show, but when the login screen should appear there is no video signal, the amber light comes on the monitor. So I'm trying to get to the terminal from the grub screen, how do you do that?
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Husse
Re: Mint update killed my video
Use Recovery mode and run xfix to fix your X 
Can't promise success but it will most likely do it
Can't promise success but it will most likely do it
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85stang
Re: Mint update killed my video
I tried the recovery boot, it would not ever boot completely, just freeze part way through. I got my video back but have another problem now. What I did was boot from a live CD (Dreamlinux 3.0) Switched my xorg.conf to the failsafe one, and that got me basic video. I then was able to boot and remove the package that did it, nvidia-glx-new-envy. which contains the 173 driver. i already had 180.22 which was working great. I reinstalled 180.22, configured X how I wanted it, then crl-alt -backspace and it works fine. however, if I reboot the machine, it reverts back to low graphics mode. Why does it do this if i restart just X it works?
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85stang
Re: Mint update killed my video
Ok I finally got this fixed, after hours of hair pulling. I found this post http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 34#p128534
and in it was the fix for me, since i had installed the video driver manually, i needed to add nv and nvidia-new to the disabled modules and the nvidia driver now loaded when i rebooted. However, this was working before it broke and i had manually installed the driver so something triggered it to go haywire, which started with the package mint update installed. So to anyone that did not use Envy to install a video driver, don't let mint update install the package "nvidia-glx-new-envy" This is just a guess, and if someone knows please correct me, but if if I had uninstalled envy, i don't think i would have got this update?
and in it was the fix for me, since i had installed the video driver manually, i needed to add nv and nvidia-new to the disabled modules and the nvidia driver now loaded when i rebooted. However, this was working before it broke and i had manually installed the driver so something triggered it to go haywire, which started with the package mint update installed. So to anyone that did not use Envy to install a video driver, don't let mint update install the package "nvidia-glx-new-envy" This is just a guess, and if someone knows please correct me, but if if I had uninstalled envy, i don't think i would have got this update?