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    additional drivers: nvidia - breaks logon sequence

    Installed Kubuntu 12.04 64-bit with the 3rd party software option selected to build a mythtv htpc this morning.

    Went to the "additional drivers" in the system menu this afternoon and the "nvidia 304" driver was already installed by default. The nvidia "current" option was "recommended" so I selected it. Things updated and I rebooted. Now I end up at an ubuntu login command line prompt. The username and password still work, but I don't know how to get the gui back and working.

    Haven't done much otherwise than default apt-get updates and upgrades, installed firefox and smpalyer ppas, and tweaked some desktop appearances.

    Thanks for any input,
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    "sudo kdm" may work to start the kdm login manager.
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      Jimmy.P@

      No. start kdm should be the command.
      Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007
      "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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        sorry for my wrong answer, i just took it from my head. Still it was close....
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          Originally posted by Snowhog View Post
          Jimmy.P@

          No. start kdm should be the command.
          Replies with "Job is already running: KDM"
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            Type: startx

            That should take you to your desktop.
            Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007
            "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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              Originally posted by Snowhog View Post
              Type: startx

              That should take you to your desktop.
              returns much verbage then:

              "nvidia: api mismatch: the nvidia kernel module has version 304.48, but this nvidia driver component has version 304.88. Please make sure that the kernel module and all the nvidia driver components have the same version."

              followed by more fatal error messages.

              thanks for your help snowhog.
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                sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current
                sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
                sudo reboot
                from: http://askubuntu.com/questions/50469...a-api-mismatch

                did the trick and apparently cleaned up the nvidia version problems.
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