I have the same symptoms here, after I did a reboot this morning everything goes blank as soon as X starts. It seems like some upgrade has broke something, I don't upgrade often so it might have been a not so recent upgrade. Not sure it is the nvidia driver itself though, as the same thing happens both with both versions 96 and 177 that I have tried.
I can't reach any of the terminals either (Ctrl+Alt+(F1-F6)) they are also blank, it seems the video card is just messed up. I can't shutdown X either, using /etc/init.d/gdm restart, it gives no error but stopping gdm takes several seconds and when starting nothing changes (I do this by first logging in using ssh). If I do a $ sudo reboot ... then the system won't startup correctly until I do an fsck. I don't know if this is related but I can do that just fine if I don't start X with the nvidia driver. My solution for now is to use the nv driver, which works fine. I've even tried moving the disk to another computer (another, much newer Dell laptop, probably also nvidia) and get the same results - a blank screen. -- [Intrepid] Blank screen on boot using Nvidia accelerated drivers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
