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I've just installed a fresh copy of kubuntu 10.04. When I activate the nvidia drivers I cannot logout. When I logout I get a black screen waiting forever. When I disable the nvidia driver I can logout and I am brought back to the login screen.
Any suggestions?
Do you have 2 video cards in your computer? While I dont have the same issue, I had an issue with 10.04 where my monitor would shut off if I killed X or switched tty's. I solved it by adding this ppa to my System>Administration>Software Sources and updating my nvidia drivers to the latest version- see this page:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates
After you add that ppa to update sources, allow it to reload, and your update manager should advise you that you have updates. After doing this, I would suggest disabling the ppa unless you really want to push your luck with bleeding edge updates ;) You might give the driver a shot even if you dont have two video cards.
Also, can you tell us what video card youre using?
I'm using Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 and it's the only card in my system. I'll try what you suggested and see what happens. Thanks.
I added the PPA and it downloaded 2 updates; they seemed to add some extra options like refresh rates, however still when I logged out my screen went black and never came out. I removed the nvidia driver now and I can log out. Are there alternatives to nvidia drivers? Currently I'm running a 1024x768 resolution and it looks ugly. When I switch to 1280x1024 I get the wrong refresh rate.
There's a fix in the proposed updates. You can either activate it now or wait till its pushed in to the official updates which shouldn't be long.
It happens on both of my computers.
One is an NVidia, one has ATI.
Nothing from the keyboard works, but I can ssh in from my laptop and kill the X server, which seems to be running at 100%