Actually i tried both ways. Switched via driver manager from Nouveau to Nvidia 331.38 (proprietary, tested) and since this did not work i tried sudo apt-get install nvidia-331 Both lead to the same behaviour described above. I'm stuck at the loading screen and no login screen ever shows up
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1300669 Title: X Server fails to start with nvidia-331 in 14.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1300669/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ 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