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Black screen at boot after Nvidia driver installation on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

I have recently built a new PC on which I installed Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS alongside windows (dual-boot). After trying to update the Nvidia driver using the following command: sudo apt-get install nvidia-...
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Black screen with cursor

I really need help.. I don’t understand much about Linux and computers yet. After I tried installing Nvidia drivers my laptop rebooted and now I am getting a black screen with only a cursor showing. ...
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4 answers
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Ubuntu stuck on boot, won't get past fsck!

This is the second time this has happened. I have disabled mouse acceleration on Ubuntu by following these instructions. Immediately after that I tried to log out but the system got hung at the fsck ...
535 votes
33 answers
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My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?

I am trying to boot Ubuntu on my computer. When I boot Ubuntu, it boots to a black screen. How can I fix this? Table of Contents: If you are trying to install Ubuntu If you have a dual boot system ...
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2 answers
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Another black screen after Nvidia driver installing

I've installed the lastest Nvidia driver for my Graphic Card (a .run file), I've followed Nvidia instructions (http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/331.20/README/index.html) and placed .run ...
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3 answers
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NVIDIA drivers suddenly stopped working after rebooting from Windows, reinstall fails (Ubuntu 20.04)

System Information MSI Creator 15 Laptop NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Mobile / Max-Q External LG Ultrawide monitor Windows 10 / Ubuntu 20.04 dual boot The Problem I have been using the nvidia 455 ...
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After boot black screen with cursor after switching to new laptop [20.04]

I need your help. I have no idea what to do next to avoid reinstalling system from the scratch to make it working. So from the beginning. I bought new laptop so I just removed ssd with ubuntu 20.04 on ...
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Broken nvidia display driver for Thinkpad T460p / GeForce 940MX

When I start my Ubuntu 20.04 normally, I get an (backlit) black screen. When I hold Shift during startup, I can see the grub startup menu: I can choose "advanced options" and then the ...
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1 answer
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Black screen with x cursor on secondary monitor

Nvidia X Server setup: Using nvidia-driver-440 OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS SecureBoot is disabled. Only one monitor appears in display settings. I've gone through Blank screen after installing nvidia ...
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0 answers
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Black screen after upgrading to 12.10

My computer booted to a black screen after upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10. Now I have a very simple question: What can I do to prevent this from happening the next time I upgrade Ubuntu to another ...
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2 answers
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Black screen after installation Latest Nvidia Driver 340.46 via PPA in Ubuntu 14 [duplicate]

Just couple minutes ago I tried to install Latest Nvidia Driver 340.46 via PPA in Ubuntu. For this reason I used this instruction The following commands weere executed: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:...
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1 answer
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS hangs (all black) before showing login screen

Attracted by the open-source philosophy and the idea of a free system from the people for the people I decided to throw away my Window 7 and replace it with Ubuntu 12.04 (I even bought it, just to ...
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3 answers
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blank screen after Nvidia install

I installed Nvidia driver on fresh install of ubuntu Now after reboot all i get is a blank screen. With nothing on it. Cant even get to the terminal. Prior to install i stopped lightdm service. Please ...
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1 answer
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Changing NVIDIA Drivers makes Ubuntu freeze on startup [duplicate]

I recently followed this guide by TensorFlow/Google on how to install all needed drivers/libraries in order to use Tensorflow with my GPU. That is a NVIDIA 1080Ti running on Ubuntu 18.04. In before, I ...
3 votes
1 answer
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Black screen after reinstall/install nvidia driver

i have hard time to figure out what is the problem. After my screen going dim (lenovo Z500 brightness key problem) i change my grub to fix this. Grub: GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 ...

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