Success! I removed the xorg-edgers ppa with 'sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers', then removed the nvidia drivers with 'sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current'.
Rebooted, and I am now in Unity! Hoorah. Thanks for the pointer Omer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/768656 Title: Unity doesn't load on Acer 1810TZ GMA 4500MHD -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs