CTRL-ALT-F1 at login screen doesn't work. Ubuntu 10.04

[Frej]

I use Ubuntu 10.04 alpha 3 with a notebook Asus UL30VT with hybrid grapics system: Intel 4500MHD and GeForce G210M. After activating the propriorty drivers from nvidia in the hardware driver menu in ubuntu the login screen doesn't show up. I've tried using CTRL-ALT-F1 (to F12) to switch to a terminal but nothing happens. During boot the loading screen shows up but the login screen never shows and the screen is just blank. I've tried adding rw init=/bin/bash to the boot command but that makes the boot hang on the boot loading screen. I've also tried recovery boot option with the same result.

What should I do to open a terminal so I can remove the nvidia driver?

[stenlee (stanislav-minar)]

i can confirm this bug .... after installing proprietary NVIDIA drivers on Asus U30JC display is completely useless. CTRL-ALT-F2 and others does not work at all. Also there is no option to start Ubuntu in graphic safe mode to uninstall NVIDIA drivers. Should Install from scratch :(( ... is there some keyboard shortcut to force graphic safe mode while booting ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, is that still an issue?

[ssn (stretter)]

Yes it is!!! An its annoying as hell... Isnt there any way to boot ubuntu without X?

[Daniel Reichelt (prinzhenry3)]

Yes! Same problem on 10.04 64-bit with NVIDIA.
But I found many other users who have similar problems also with radeon: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/540547

I just want to have a console without X-Server as stenlee to install the nvidia drivers.

@stenlee: Have you found any workaround?

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