View Full Version : [ubuntu] Ctrl+Alt+F1 = Problems Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Purple Narwhal
May 16th, 2013, 02:45 AM
Hey all! I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for almost a month now and I love it! I wanted to start playing some old Steam games on it, but I have out of date drivers, so I get an error message at Steam's launch. I am using a GeForce 6200. To update my drivers, I went to the nVidia website and got the latest drivers for my system. The only way I could get them was as a .run file. I executed them in terminal as described on the Ubuntu website and got error messages about the X environment and such. I learned that I had to use Ctrl + Alt + F1 to go to a command line and exit the GUI. When I pressed those keys, the screen flickered and had lines all over it. I couldn't do anything except Ctrl + Alt + F7. That took me back to the desktop GUI, but the background had the same lines from the "command line" screen. It stayed like that until I did a reboot. I tried updating everything, no help. I had no programs running. I also tried the terminal command "sudo service lightdm stop" didn't help, same lines on the screen.
So, any ides on how to fix it? Thanks!
papibe
May 16th, 2013, 03:23 AM
Hi Purple Narwhal. Welcome to the forums ):P
I'd recommend uninstalling that driver, and following these instructions (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valve) to install the proper Nvidia driver (310-experimental).
Regards.
Purple Narwhal
May 16th, 2013, 11:28 AM
Thanks for replying. Unfortunately, my system says it it not using any proprietary drivers when I go to additional drivers.
What can I do to fix this? Thanks!
papibe
May 16th, 2013, 03:17 PM
Let's do it manually then.
Make sure you removed the one you installed from the site:
sudo NVIDIA-Linux-xxx-xxx.xx.run --uninstall
Replace "NVIDIA-Linux-xxx-xxx.xx.run" with the actual name of the script you downloaded.
Clean the house:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*
sudo rm -rf /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Then restart your machine.
Once you get into the desktop again, install the Steam driver:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-experimental-310
Create the X config file:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
Restart. Now you should be using the proper Nvidia driver for Steam.
Let us know how it goes.
Regards.
Purple Narwhal
May 16th, 2013, 08:57 PM
When I did exactly what you said and rebooted after installing the experimental drivers, Ubuntu couldn't startup. I get a black screen. I can go into the recovery console by holding shift if there is a way to fix this problem.
Thanks!
papibe
May 16th, 2013, 09:17 PM
Sorry to hear that.
Let's try the current stable version then:
Boot until you get the black screen, wait a minute or so, and go to text-mode console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1
Login and uninstall the previous driver:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*
sudo rm -rf /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Then restart your machine.
Once you get into the desktop again, install the normal driver:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
Create the X config file:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
Restart:
sudo reboot
Let us know how it goes.
Regards.
Purple Narwhal
May 16th, 2013, 09:44 PM
Thanks for helping, but I cannot get to the command line using Ctrl + Alt + F1. It has no response on the black screen. What should I try now?
papibe
May 16th, 2013, 09:50 PM
Boot into recovery mode. You can't install anything, but at least you can remove packages:
sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*
sudo rm -rf /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sudo reboot
Let us know if that helps.
Regards.
Purple Narwhal
May 16th, 2013, 10:12 PM
Well, uninstalling the old drivers in recovery mode and then re installing the current normal drivers through terminal worked! I can run steam and it shows up in additional drivers! I still can't use Ctrl Alt F1. This is what it looks like (See attachment)
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Thanks for helping!
papibe
May 17th, 2013, 02:56 AM
Glad you got Steam working ;)
At this moment, I don't know why it does not go to text mode. I can suggest trying Ctrl+Alt-F2 through Ctrl+Alt-F6.
If that doesn't get you there, you may want to try the boot option called 'nomodeset':
gksudo gedit /etc/defualt/grub
Look for a like that looks like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
Add nomodeset to it so it looks like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"
Save the file, and reboot.
Let us know if that fixes the text mode problem.
Regards.
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