Usually when something like this happens, you'll still be able to do Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a text-based console where you can log in and fix things. If you can get there, "sudo apt-get install -f" stands a good chance of fixing the problem. Forrest On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> wrote: > > Just did the software update . . . which I noticed wanted to give my > Thinkpad T61 a new nvidia driver . . . and it now boots up to some empty > screen. How can I boot up to some fallback driver and correct this > situation? > > LB > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20141216/66439eb7/attachment.html>