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[BigMike <bigmike.ak@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have resolved this.  Yeah, it surprised me too.  I had to completely
purge all of nvidia-glx and associated components from my system.  This
is how I did it.

Shut down gdm, or kdm if appropriate

     sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

at black screen, go to login

     ctrl + alt + f1

login at this point

purge all nvidia drivers from system

      sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-glx*

(the * gets it all)

cleanup step for a file it said hadn't been completely removed

    sudo apt-get autoremove

Install new driver at this point.  Go with the 180 in my case.

     sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-180

configure the driver

     sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-glx-180

At this point reboot (sudo reboot).

Everything worked on startup, even at max appearance display.  *GASP*
This is the first time in three upgrades that I haven't had problems.  I
can't believe my video problems might finally be over.

*JOY*

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[Jaunty} After upgrade cannot enable restriced (and installed) Nvidia 180.44 or (later) 180.53 driver.  No Joy.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370743
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