I am not super knowledgeable about much of ubuntu's inner workings. I only understand some of the basics, but after I ran the latest apt upgrade command I saw when glancing at the packages being installed that there was some kind of nvidia package being run and unpackaged. Ever since I have installed ubuntu I have had periodic problems with some upgrades where the nvidia driver seems to either not be recognized by grub or ubuntu because it boots into the operating system, but only with a basic text flashing cursor displayed. I can navigate the system as though I was using terminal, but can do nothing else.
I am unclear why this is happening. I have a MSI GT683R computer running a NVIDIA GTX 560M video card. The two drivers it is trying to work with right now are
nvidia-driver-390 (this has been the recommended one which I have used in the past and has worked fine)xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
If someone could help me figure out what is going on that would be great. My system has worked well for over a year or more and I have done several upgrades in that time and not had this issue.
Any help would be appreciated.
