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Yesterday I finished building a new PC with the following:

  • I5 processor
  • Asus A97-A MB
  • EVGA gtx 960

When I first started it yesterday I was still using Ubuntu 12.10. Most everything worked ok except there were some sound issues and the ethernet did not work. I updated to 14.02 LTS today in an attempt to fix those issues (and it did) but it messed up the graphics card drivers (or so it seemed; DOTA was running at 10 FPS.)

I ran through this set of instructions on Ubuntu Forums to try to fix the graphics card drivers. After completing them I have been stuck in a login loop. When I enter my password the screen goes black and comes right back to the log on screen.

I did ls -la .Xauthority and my user name is listed twice like it should be.

Zanna
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vvega511
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  • Can you post a link to "this set of instructions" that you used, please? Also, how did you update from 12.10 to 14.04? – steeldriver May 15 '15 at 00:40
  • Oops sorry. I forgot to relink it. [link]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2263316

    I upgraded using the updater in ubuntu.

     – vvega511 May 15 '15 at 00:45

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I re-did the last section of the instructions I linked to on Ubuntu Forums, the part for installing the nVidia driver.

When I did it the first time I used the 340.65 driver. This time I used the newest 346.72 driver and that seemed to fix it. I have no idea why; maybe it was just an issue with that particular driver.

Zanna
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vvega511
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I am only familiar with Kubuntu so this may not help. At the login screen do not login. Do Control-Alt-F1. then login with your username and password.

Now run 

sudo dpkg --configure -a  
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get -f install

this: configures all packages looks for updates updates including kernel looks for dependency issues and installs them.

After that is all done type startx and try to login again.

walttheboss
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  • Thank you for answering. I ran through all that and it did a bunch of stuff. when I did the startx it went to a black screen with a cursor blinking in the upper left corner. Not sure if that is normal or not. I left it set for awhile but it did not change so I restart it with the power button. I tried to log in again but still the same thing. It kicks me back to the log on screen. – vvega511 May 15 '15 at 01:55