Ubuntu boots into tty1 after driver downgrade

Posted by Zach on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Zach
Published on 2012-10-29T01:25:57Z Indexed on 2012/11/21 17:16 UTC
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Earlier today I downgraded the driver for my nvidia 240 GT from version 310 to version 304 using ubuntus "additional drivers" utility. After the install I rebooted but instead of opening unity and allowing me to login it booted into tty1 instead. After using the "startx" command I got the message, "nvidia: API mismatch: the nvidia kernel module has version 310.14, but this nvidia driver component has version 304.43." What can I do to solve this?

Edit: Solved my own problem by purging all nvidia packaged and reinstalling my drivers.

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