[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu dropping to login prompt instead of frontend auto login after nvidia upgrade

[Ian Evans]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Ian,
>
> Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 6:56:14 PM, you wrote:
>
> > Just did one of those dumb coffee-deprived things one does when one
> > thinks "maybe this will solve the problem."
>
> > Was suddenly having issues with my Mythbuntu 12.04 BE/FE system
> > with .27-fixes and the nvidia 304.132 driver (as mentioned in other
> recent threads).
>
> > Synaptic wasn't showing the .131 downgrade. Additional Drivers
> recommended the 340 driver.
>
> > Installed that and rebooted. Instead of automatically logging in
> > graphically as mythtv and starting the frontend I was greeted with a
> Ubuntu 12.04.5 tty1 login prompt.
>
> > Really dumb thing for me to do on an election day with a lot of
> > recordings. How do I get it back to auto login?
>
> > Many thanks for saving me from my own stupidity. Blame the coffee (or
> lack thereof)
>
> Very probably your card is to old for the 340 nvidia driver and
> without graphical driver X won't start. So you must then find that
> 304.131 or any 304 prior to 132.
> At http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html you can find what driver
> supports what cards.
>

Thanks Hika.

Here's the card info:

VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev
a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 836d
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        Memory at de000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        I/O ports at ac00 [size=128]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at d8000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nvidia_304, nvidia_340, nouveau, nvidiafb

1st) Is there a relatively painless way to revert back to any 304 via the
command line?
2nd) Before I did this I looked at Synaptic and the Force Version didn't
list .131 at all.

Thanks.
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