Ubuntu 12.10 won't display properly after kernel upgrade [closed]

Solution 1:

After the update of kernel 3.5.0-18 was issued my installation didnt work and nvidia.ko was not build

I needed to install the headers manually and then it was "ok" though compiz acted unstable in the first minute.

sudo  apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-18
sudo  apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-18-generic
sudo  depmod -a
sudo  modprobe nvidia
sudo  /etc/init.d/*dm restart

It may be necessary to update nvidia-current too

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-current
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Anyway - I never ever had so many problems with nvidia_current as with 12.10

Ubuntu must have killed all quality control employees - shame on you!

Solution 2:

Had the same problem after updating this morning. Found a workaround what will useful at least for a short period.

Right-click and open screen-settings, then you will be able to select All-Settings and there select Software-Sources.

In this box select the tab Additional-Drivers. Here you will be able to select different display drivers, for me the second one works fine. Problem is... those are not the Nvidia drivers and will perform less, but at least it works.

Update: got new problems with VirtualBox combined with the OpenSource drivers. Went back to Nvidia drivers and kernel 3.5.0-17 , thanks Brad your solution did work great.

Solution 3:

Looks like you might be having the issue here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/1078598