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

[Ian Evans]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>


Managed to reinstall 304.132 with sudo jockey-text -e xorg:nvidia_304

Still not seeing .131 as an option in Synaptic.
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