I have resolved this. Yeah, it surprised me too. I had to completely purge all of nvidia-glx and associated components from my system. This is how I did it.
Shut down gdm, or kdm if appropriate sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop at black screen, go to login ctrl + alt + f1 login at this point purge all nvidia drivers from system sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-glx* (the * gets it all) cleanup step for a file it said hadn't been completely removed sudo apt-get autoremove Install new driver at this point. Go with the 180 in my case. sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-180 configure the driver sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-glx-180 At this point reboot (sudo reboot). Everything worked on startup, even at max appearance display. *GASP* This is the first time in three upgrades that I haven't had problems. I can't believe my video problems might finally be over. *JOY* -- [Jaunty} After upgrade cannot enable restriced (and installed) Nvidia 180.44 or (later) 180.53 driver. No Joy. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370743 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 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