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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Ian,

Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 7:35:14 PM, you wrote:

> 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.

I don't use ubuntu but checked in VM I have and 304.117-0ubuntu1 is
shown. (sudo apt-cache showpkg nvidia-304)


Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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