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System boots to a black screen after upgrade to 11.04
I was a similar situation to this user: Dual Boot 10.10 and 11.04 can't boot into 10.10 after an update
Only many more GRUB entres.
Natty still worked - and I could still access the natty ...
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How to get disable nVidia Graphics Card (which has recently expired) so that I can boot Desktop?
I have a 3-4 years old laptop (Compaq V3000), which had Win Vista with Ubuntu 10.10 in dual boot configuration. The graphics card inside is an old Nvidia GeForce Go 7200.
One fine day, my graphics ...
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10.10 boots to command line login prompt
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a computer that was previously running 10.04 (that worked fine).
Now, each time I boot up, it starts up in a command line login prompt. I can login and it stays ...
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No image when booting into either recovery mode or normal gnome session [duplicate]
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My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?
I have an nvidia geforce 295 GTX, and it works great in Windows.
However, when booting into Ubuntu I ...
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Boot screen in low graphics/text mode
My ubuntu boot screen shows up in a strange low resolution, almost text mode, instead the usual and sleek white "ubuntu" over dark background. It's not a big issue because when GDM loads everything ...
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Why is the resolution incorrectly set on boot after installing the Nvidia drivers?
After installing the native Nvidia drivers on my Ubuntu 10.10, my boot screen resolution has been reset to 640x480 or so...
I tried to fix it by following these steps: http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/...
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Poor boot-screen after interrupted install
My install was interrupted because of a power cut. I recovered from it, using the command
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Now, I get a violet boot screen like normal, but the progress bar is shown as 4 ...
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Problems with graphics of Sony Vaio Z
I have problem with my Sony Vaio Z VPCZ1. It has physical selector of GPUs which Linux kernel does not detect.
So after GRUB I see black display (I tried different distributions of Ubuntu and other ...
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Enabling Nvidia driver messes up splash screen
When you boot from live CD, or doing the first boot after installing Ubuntu, splash screen looks awesome. But as soon as you enable nvidia-current driver, installed with apt-get, splash screen goes ...
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Will plymouth allow for a nice boot experience with proprietary graphics drivers in future?
The new graphical bootloader introduced in 10.04 (plymouth) looks amazing until I enable proprietary drivers for my video card. I then get a horrible flashy monster of a boot experience, which I can ...
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