Nvidia install causes failure on login

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I feel like I’ve been particularly stupid here, so bear with me:

I attempted to install a driver for my graphics card by going here, and downloading and running the .run file I found there.

At one point while running, I was told that the process had probably disabled nouveau, but I’d have to reboot the system before continuing. I didn’t notice this until I’d already hit continue.

Now on boot, the system encounters a fatal error when it attempts to load the login page, presumably because it can’t load a graphics card at this point.

I’m currently booting from the LiveCD, and I’d like to know if it’s possible to remove the driver installed by the .run file, or at least disable it until I can sort everything out again?

Cheers!

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Just removing the .run file won’t help. You ran it, and it partly did what it should do. Login with your username and password and do


cd /path/to/downloaded/NV....run/
su
sh NV....run -q --no-x-check --no-nouveau-check
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Is this an optimus notebook???

You can remove the driver via the nvidiaxxxxxxx.run --remove option

boot to terminal by at the boot press e then find line startin linux or linuxefi anfd go to true end of line (it wraps) enter a space and 3 press F10 to continue boot log in terminal as root go to where the .run file is and run with --remove ooption

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Thanks, I managed to remove the driver and get nouveau working again!

Still can’t seem to get the NVIDIA driver to work, but now that I know how to remove it when stuff goes sour, I’ll be able to figure it out at some point in the future.

Thanks, guys!

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It important to know if this is an optimus note book or a desktop. It makes a world of difference how to approach driver install

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Can we see output of

sudo lspci | grep VGA
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Sorry, should have been clearer on that point. It’s an HP Envy laptop

Sure:

 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
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Are you sure that this machine has a NVIDIA chip??

If so you must use bumblebee not the normal NVIDIA driver

But i don’t see NVIDIA in the lspci output so…?

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It should do. There’s a big ol’ Geforce sticker on the laptop, and I’m fairly certain it was recognised when the machine was running windows.

I’ve installed bumblebee, and the chip’s still not showing up in lspci. I’ll try fiddling around some more