It left me in the dark too (booting to text mode console) and i lost 3 hours looking for the problem. At first my solution was to manually load the nvidia-331 module with modprobe and then I found this bug report sating that bumblebee blacklists the nvidia drivers.
Uninstalling (apt-get remove) doesn't remove /etc/modprobe.d/bumblebee.conf but purging does (apt-get remove --purge). Now I'm wondering what will happen to not so tech savy users... In systems without dual graphics it prevents X from loading at all and even using ppa-purge to remove xorg-edgers packages does nothing (it was my first try) as /etc/modprobe.d/bumblebee.conf is still left behind. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1265570 Title: nvidia-331 update installs bumblebee [xorg-edgers] Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-331” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hi xorg-edgers team, I just got the nvidia-331 update, from nvidia-319, but the update installs bumblebee, however when bumblebee is installed it blacklists the nvidia kernel modules. Which bumblebee is suppossed to do but it breaks xorg if you aren't running an optimus based GPU. Uninstalling bumblebee does not remove the /etc/modprobe.d/bumblebee.conf config file and as such the driver is still blacklisted until you either modify the file to not black list the nvidia-331 module or remove bumblebee.conf. I have an nvidia 560 GTX video card. Tareeq To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1265570/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
