I recently installed the NVIDIA 319
driver from the Jockey window, and now X won't load! I'm stuck with a blinking cursor. I used to have the 304
drivers installed.
How do I fix this?
What happened is actually pretty common. You most likely did not uninstall the old driver.
You need to go and boot into recovery mode. Steps are below.
mount -o remount,rw /
DO NOT FORGET THE remount
!sudo apt-get remove nvidia-304 nvidia-settings-304
Bonus Step: Fix Plymouth (the Ubuntu boot logo) by following this tutorial from WebUpd8.