Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-361 package

  1. Bug #1362848
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1362848

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JS (js101) wrote : Re: ubuntu 14.04 after install nvidia binary driver 331.89 black screen and freeze

Thought I post this as well; so I updated my system yesterday, today had to reboot and then was seeing just the blank screen, so I rebooted my laptop again only to be greeted again to the same black screen. I was able to fix it doing the following below, and here are my specs as well:

- Asus X550L having Nvidia Geforce 720
- Running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

So booted up and greeted with the black screen. Pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get onto the terminal screen, logged in using my credentials, and all I did was:

$ sudo apt-get dist-update (I didn't run dist-upgrade afterwards as I had upgraded last night)
$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates
$ sudo reboot

And no more black screen, greeted back to GUI.