nvidia driver hosed my system? <SOLVED>

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zeno

nvidia driver hosed my system? <SOLVED>

Post by zeno »

fresh install of mint 11 debian x64
everything working perfect till i decided to install the nvidia driver from the software manager
it appeared nothing happened, till i rebooted to no graphics.
i'm a linux noob so it took me awhile to even figure out that i could log into the system from that blinking cursor.
so what do i have to do to get my gui back?
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zeno

Re: nvidia driver hosed my system?

Post by zeno »

fixed it finally using the commands in this post: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=191&t=82424
proxima_centauri

Re: nvidia driver hosed my system?

Post by proxima_centauri »

* Moved to LMDE forum

Glad you solved the problem.
In the future, you can edit your original post to add <Solved> to the thread title.
zeno

Re: nvidia driver hosed my system? <SOLVED>

Post by zeno »

grrrrr, was solved till i updat pack 3. now its broke and the previous fix dont work.
zeno

Re: nvidia driver hosed my system? <SOLVED>

Post by zeno »

fixed it with sgfxi mentioned in this post: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=82547
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about933.html

run the following command string as root user in terminal/console [recommended]:
cd /usr/local/bin;wget -Nc smxi.org/sgfxi;chmod +x sgfxi;sgfxi
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