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Help - no gui !!!

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http://www.linuxquestions.org – I was running Ubuntu 10.04 without any problems for over a month until a few minutes ago my laptop went to sleep and just blocked on resume with a screen with black pixels. I was forced to turn it off. When I turned it on, the same black screen appears. So I tried with the other kernels and with the recovery modes with no success. In recovery mode I tried the atlernative Graphical server but still cannot show any GUI. At least I have access to terminal. I think the problem may be resolved if I remove the Nvidia Driver. Do you know the name of that package? Should I then use the & (HowTos)

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