Ubuntu 16.04 - How to disable Nvidia driver from GRUB?
I got it to work!
Here's what I did:
- Booted into recovery mode with root cmd prompt.
- Mounted the drive with "mount --options remount,rw /"
- Purged the drivers with "sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*"
- At this point I was able to boot into Ubuntu, went to "Additional Drivers" and selected the latest available Nvidia driver.
- Even after install, the driver wasn't see my card. I had to go to tty1 (CTRL+ALT+F1) and run "sudo service lightdm restart". My screen flickered a few times and then came back up in my monitor's native resolution.
Hope this helps others who are stuck.
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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It'sPete over 1 year
I am having an interesting issue. I upgraded my graphics cards and now the NVidia driver does not recognize it. As a result, when I attempt to boot into Ubuntu, I get spammed with an error stating that the driver has not recognized my card and then I get a black screen.
I have tried the follow:
- set nvidia.modeset=0 in GRUB options
- use nomodeset (following instructions here: Ubuntu 16.04 + Nvidia Driver = Blank screen)
- Boot into recovery mode and try "failsafe" graphics. This led to my BIOS screaming a loud beeping at me.
- Use the root command prompt from recovery mode. This doesn't work since when I mount the drive (so I have write access so I can modify files) it loads the driver and I get spammed with the error.
Any ideas? At this point I am about to call it quits and just re-install 16.04 from scratch.
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Admin over 6 yearsWhat's with the downvotes? Troubleshooting issues w/ nvidia and grub are lamentably common.