Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 package

  1. Bug #1639180
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1639180

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Igor Djuric (idjuric) wrote :

Dear all, I am so glad I can post a solution (or at least workaround) for this.

Instead of downgrading from 304.132 to the previous version 304.131, I've followed the suggestion on http://askubuntu.com/questions/845632/nvidia-304-132-driver-update-wont-boot and checked which nVidia driver version should be compatible with my graphic card at http://www.geforce.com/drivers.

It came out that I should install version 340.98, which I did and subsequently were able to login into my user session again.

Just why Ubuntu 16.04 LTS automatic upgrade mechanism thinks my nVidia 8600 GT graphic card should work with version 304 of these drivers is probably due to some misconfiguration bugs or similar.