Starting load fallback graphics devices [fail] - at the boot time

I had some problem when Ubuntu is booting.

After BIOS windows it trows this mistake:

Starting load fallback graphics devices [fail]

After this I see terminal with suggestions to enter login and password.

I couldn't figure out why this happen?

Here is my boot.log

It was started after I restarted PC.

I have NVidia video card.

By the way it has another trouble at /var/log/boot.log:

Starting vmware services\:
vm monitor [fail]
vm communication... [fail]
vm socket family [fail]

But I deleted all vmware product. And now this message is discard.

- How to solve this trouble?

2 Answers

I had same problem. After upgrading the nvidia drivers, it solved it.

1. remove the existing nvidia driver :

   sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current

2. updrage to the new driver: (follow this link)

   Here are commands I followed.

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

   sudo apt-get update

   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

   sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

I had this problem too. I actually created it myself by installing nvidia-current (which is recommended by Chit in his answer) when trying to solve another problem.

I eventually discovered that nvidia drivers more recent than the 173.14.xx series would not work with my old card. I found the correct legacy drivers here:

So this is what I did:

wget
chmod 755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg1.run
sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.39-pkg1.run

Rebooted and it worked!