I selected the recommended nvidia-381 driver from the Additional Drivers settings page in Ubuntu 16.10. After restarting, the system is stuck at the splash screen.
I tried starting in recovery mode to access the root shell. From there, I tried uninstalling the Nvidia driver, stopping LightDM, and installing the default one. These are the commands I used:
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge nvidia-*
sudo stop lightdm
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveauI had problems with every step. First, after removing the Nvidia driver, it still shows in the driver list. Second, LightDM will not stop because it says:
Unable to connect to upstart: connection refused
Third, when I install the default driver, it says the newest version is already installed. But when I restart, nothing happens.
I repeated these steps 5 times.
Is there any way I could connect to the internet through my root shell?
1 Answer
I am not sure if it is the most efficient method but this is what I did.
1) Use ubuntu live usb to download the latest driver from NVIDIA and save the file in the disk on your computer.
2)Reboot into recovery to root terminal.
3)sudo apt-get remove nvidia*
4)cd to the place where you have saved the driver
5)chmod 777 NVIDIA-Linux-{version}.run
6)$ sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-{version}.run
This is what worked for me.
