You have been subscribed to a public bug: After the recent upgrades, which might include the Xorg 1.9 upgrade, or else a kernel upgrade, my system rebooted and the display came not back, i.e. gdm didn't start.
The message was: [ 1610.174] (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your [ 1610.174] (EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages. [ 1610.174] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" [ 1610.174] (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so [ 1610.174] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0) After googling I found that removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf would help. And indeed it does, as the nVidia driver is not loaded anymore. After more googling I got a hint that getting the latest nVidia might help as this was due to X 1.9.0. Ubuntu delivers 260.19.06-0ubuntu1, but the latest nVidia drivers are NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.21.run. And indeed, that solved the issue. I'm now running my own nVidia drivers. ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- After recent upgrade, nVidia driver does not load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/688837 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp