So, for awhile I've been trying to get my external display to work. I'm running a Nvidia Geforce 305M graphics card in a Lenovo IdeaPad U460s. But when I open Nvidia X settings (Ubuntu 11.10 btw) a window pops up saying that I do not have the Nvidia X Driver installed and running and to run "nvidia-xconfig" (or whatever it says) as root, and then restart the X server. So I open the terminal and run command:
sudo nvidia-xconfig
Terminal does it's thing...and then I run this command (based on answers on THIS site):
sudo service lightdm restart
Then the Ubuntu Desktop/UI/blah blah blah shuts off, screen goes black and then white text appears on the screen like so:
*PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions
saned disabled: edit /etc/default/saned
[OK] *Starting anac(h)ronistic cron
[OK] *Stopping anac(h)cronistic cron
[OK] *Stopping cold plug devices
[OK] *Stopping log initial device creation
[OK] *Starting configure virtual network devices
[OK] *Starting configure network device security
[OK] *Stopping configure virtual network devices
*Checking battery state...
*Stopping System V runlevel compatibillity [OK]
I have no idea what this screen is. I am capable of typing in it, though typed commands (terminal command lines) won't work (at least none that I've tried, but what do I know haha?)
Anyways...any help with this would be greatly appreciated, I am fairly new to Ubuntu and I love it so far, I would love it even more if I could get my peripheral hardware up and running (ie my Secondary Monitor)