Need to deactivate NVIDIA driver from recovery mode or using Ubuntu 12.04 install disk

Question

I tried switching graphics drivers from 317 to 304(post-release) because it kept crashing when I wanted to move my monitor's display to the other side of the laptop display (using NVIDIA Settings)

Now Ubuntu won't boot at all. It just crashes and leaves a blinking cursor but I can't type anything.

I want to switch the graphics driver back to the old one using recovery mode or the Ubuntu install disk so I can boot again. How can I do this?

Just want to add here that I had the same issue after installing new drivers, but turns out it was caused by a DP - HDMI converter cable that was dodgy. Not sure why after updating drivers the Cable went spastic, but after switching to a normal HDMI-HDMI cable it worked again. — Hansang, Dec 25 '24 at 11:35

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '13 at 01:58

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I figured it out

From recovery mode, select networking. That will also mount the disk

Then I can enter a root shell and

apt-get remove --purge nvidia*

After rebooting, I was able to

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

And that one seems to work fine.

answered Oct 01 '13 at 01:58

dspyz

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Worked for 22.04. Thanks! – Goblinhack Nov 17 '22 at 18:46

Need to deactivate NVIDIA driver from recovery mode or using Ubuntu 12.04 install disk

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