Kubuntu 15.04 Graphics Driver Issue

[blackwolf 12333]

Hello,

This is very likely related to the fact that the NVIDIA driver does not
support xorg 1.8. If you can try downgrading your X11 install. NVIDIA only
recently updated their driver and it may take some time to reach your
distributions repository.
On Nov 23, 2015 10:46, "gokul krishna" <gkgokulkrishna33 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I started using Kubuntu 15.04 around five months back and recently I
> encountered a problem when I updated my graphics driver[1]. Currently I’ve
> Nvidia 860M Graphics driver in my Lenovo Y50-70 laptop. I tried [2] and
> even tried updating and upgrading the whole system by logging in through
> tty1 using ' sudo apt-get update/upgrade'  using the LAN cable but then it
> didn’t work. The screen says blank for a long time and after that I've to
> forcefully turn it off. I then tried the following commands in tty1-
> rm -r ~/.kde
> rm -r ~/.cache
> rm -r ~/.config/plasmarc and then
> kbuildsycoca5
>
> Then I tried editing the boot up option as in one of the links which was
> editing the ‘/etc/default/grub’ file and changed the
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash nomodeset” and then saved the file
> and the ran ’sudo update-grub’ but still it turned out to be unsuccessful.
>
>
> So the next option which I found was reinstalling the whole version but
> then it’d cost me a lot since I’m working on it.
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1432171
> [2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2275603
>
> With Regards,
> Gokul Krishna P
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