Maverick on Macbook Pro 6,2 boots to CLI

**bradpowers** · January 13th, 2011

After updating the NVidia Driver to the recommended one. What's going on? And how do I get my precious GUI back?

Thanks,
Bradley Powers

**bradpowers** · January 14th, 2011

So, does anybody know why the "restricted" nvidia driver might cause Ubuntu directly to CLI instead of the GUI? I've reinstalled Ubuntu, which resolved the issue, but I'd like to install the nvidia driver as I'd like for it to work properly. Sorry for not giving any detail last night, I was frustrated, grumpy, and not thinking straight.

Thanks,
Bradley Powers

**sudo_0** · January 14th, 2011

Originally Posted by bradpowers

Sorry for not giving any detail last night, I was frustrated, grumpy, and not thinking straight.

why were you grumpy?

did you get it working before posting?

sudo info-get iamconfused OP

**bradpowers** · January 14th, 2011

I was grumpy because Ubuntu would only boot to the CLI, and I couldn't figure out why!

I reinstalled Ubuntu, and didn't install the Nvidia driver. At the moment it's working in the sense that I'm not booting to CLI, but I'd like to use the Nvidia driver if possible.

Password:

**bradpowers** · January 18th, 2011

Does anyone have any ideas? I need to be able to use the NVIDIA driver for what I'm doing, but I also can't operate only in the CLI. It'd be really great if somebody had any recommendation.

**ZeroLinux** · January 18th, 2011

What is happening when you type gdm and press enter?
Did you try

Code:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

select "nv" for the first screen and hit enter until it's done.

You can also try:

Code:

sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-glx* nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-settings
sudo rm /etc/init.d/nvidia-*
sudo update-rc.d nvidia-kernel remove
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new linux-restricted-modules-`uname -r`

You can try to install new driver this way (I mean you use x86 architecture): (You can take right driver for wget here)

Code:

mkdir nvidia
cd nvidia
wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/260.19.29/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.29.run
sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config
sudo chmod a+x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.29.run
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-260.19.29.run

reboot from terminal you can do this way

Code: