Graham, unfortunately it appears nvidia-173 will not be a WORKAROUND for you at
this time. The closest bug report found to your problem is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-173/+bug/1064192
"[update request] nvidia-173.14.36 adds support for xserver ABI 13 [quantal]"
Because you are getting error messages for a different version of ABI:
nvidia-173 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-11 but it is not installable or
xorg-video-abi-12 but it is not installable
It would be best to file a separate bug report about this via the terminal and
feel free to subscribe me to it:
ubuntu-bug nvidia-173
Refocusing back onto the black screen on boot problem, the next step is to
perform a Ubuntu kernel bisect from 3.2.0-23.36 to 3.5.0-17.28, in order to
identify the last good Ubuntu kernel version, followed immediately by the first
bad one. As per https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/linux we have:
3.2.0-23.36
3.2.0-24.37
3.4.0-1.1
3.4.0-1.2
3.4.0-1.3
3.4.0-2.4
3.4.0-2.5
3.4.0-2.6
3.4.0-3.7
3.4.0-3.8
3.4.0-4.9
3.4.0-4.10
3.4.0-5.11
3.5.0-1.1
3.5.0-2.2
3.5.0-3.3
3.5.0-4.4
3.5.0-5.5
3.5.0-6.6
3.5.0-7.7
3.5.0-8.8
3.5.0-9.9
3.5.0-10.10
3.5.0-11.11
3.5.0-12.12
3.5.0-13.13
3.5.0-13.14
3.5.0-14.15
3.5.0-14.16
3.5.0-14.17
3.5.0-14.18
3.5.0-14.19
3.5.0-15.20
3.5.0-15.21
3.5.0-15.22
3.5.0-15.23
3.5.0-16.24
3.5.0-16.25
3.5.0-17.26
3.5.0-17.27
3.5.0-17.28
Hence, could you please test 3.5.0-7.7 via
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.5.0-7.7/+build/3692730 ?
Once this test is complete, could you please continue to bisect
following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection ?
Thank you for your understanding.
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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
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