On 06/03/14 16:51, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
Yesterday I (belatedly) realised that my desktop PC with Kubuntu 13.10 installed
hadn't put any updates in since way before Christmas. Assuming that the Muon
Updater had stopped alerting me, I ran it and found that around 300 + packages
needed updating, including the kernel. Unfortunately, after the update, the
machine froze at the boot message stage.
Having no idea what had gone wrong, I did a clean install from the original CD
and reapplied all of the updates. After the reboot all seemed well until.... I
installed the Nvidia driver and got exactly the same symptoms. I then concluded
that the problem is a mismatch between the new kernel and the old nvidia driver
(it worked OK before the new kernel was installed.
So now I've booted into Recovery Mode and am sitting in a root prompt. How do I
remove the nvidia driver from the system and reinstall the old driver
(presumably noveau)?
I can see that apt-get allows me to remove the offending package, but I can't
remember how to list the installed and available packages that I can access.
Are there any other things that I need to do?
Terry Coles
Assuming you have access to another PC this might help
http://askubuntu.com/questions/352093/need-to-deactivate-nvidia-driver-from-recovery-mode-or-using-ubuntu-12-04-instal
Hope it helps
Tim
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