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Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.10 freeze and white screen with nvidia gtx 660

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I've been trying to get Ubuntu to work (dual booted with Win7) on my new computer for a week now and have not found a working solution. System specs:

Intel Core i7-4771 @ 3.50 GHz

250 GB SSD Samsung 840 EVO

16 GB RAM

Nvidia GeForce GTX 660

The last item is the suspected culprit...

I first installed 12.04 which worked fine (but did not detect my nvidia card) until it updated, then one of two things happened (I have reinstalled 12.04 several times):
1) I got a white screen but with the mouse visible, and it was possible to open a graphical terminal with Ctrl-t and run programs from there.
2) After updating the nvidia driver I got a completely black screen and could not even open a terminal using Ctrl-Alt-F1.

I then tried installing 13.10 but it freezes on splash screen and I cannot use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to open a terminal. I can't even get the keyboard to work in failsafe mode!

I'm not familiar with debugging this kind of problem and would really appreciate help. As it is now i can't use Ubuntu, which is a shame...

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answered 3 Years ago pheter · Accepted Answer

Thanks for the reply floppy!

What I did in the end was to do a clean install of 12.04 and install nvidia-304. Then I got the familiar black screen with a white-outline cross, but when I typed my password and hit "enter" i got a white screen and could do Alt-t to open a terminal.

What eventally solved it was switching to Unity 2d by typing:

sudo /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults -s ubuntu-2d

Now, after installing mesa-utils, the system recognized my graphics card and I can see that it is in use by using the command:

sudo /sbin/lsmod | grep nvidia

I will have to make due with unity 2d :)