Thought I post this as well; so I updated my system yesterday, today had to reboot and then was seeing just the blank screen, so I rebooted my laptop again only to be greeted again to the same black screen. I was able to fix it doing the following below, and here are my specs as well:
- Asus X550L having Nvidia Geforce 720 - Running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS So booted up and greeted with the black screen. Pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get onto the terminal screen, logged in using my credentials, and all I did was: $ sudo apt-get dist-update (I didn't run dist-upgrade afterwards as I had upgraded last night) $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates $ sudo reboot And no more black screen, greeted back to GUI. -- 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/1362848 Title: ubuntu 14.04 after install nvidia binary driver 331.89 black screen and freeze Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit, after install nvidia binary driver 331.89 from Additional Drivers application then reboot, it shows black screen, no login window, I even can't use ctrl+alt+F2 to switch to text mode, then I reboot and go to recovery mode, use 'prime-select intel' to switch to intel GPU and reboot, everything is fine, but as soon as I switch to nvidia GPU, still same issue. OS: Ubuntu 14.04 64bit Laptop: HP ENVY 15t Nvidia GeForce GT 740M + Intel HD 4600 Desktop: Unity Kernel: 3.13.0 CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ Thanks! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1362848/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
