Comment 46 for bug 1033533

I have had relative success (though not tested long term) by enabling noapic and nomodeset as kernel command line options. Without those two, my X would freeze up almost instantly at the login screen. With those two, I was able to boot, log in, and run through multiple windows (including one full 1080p video playback).

However, all of this was accomplished on Ubuntu 13.10.

Edit /etc/default/grub and include:

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash noapic nomodeset"

Then run sudo update-grub and reboot

Since then, things seem to be running quite well.

Here are the nvidia packages I have installed:

   iB nvidia-319-updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module a
   i A nvidia-settings-319-updates - Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics d