Fedora 20 Hangs on Boot after Nvidia Quadro 2000M Drivers Install
I recently installed Fedora 20 (x64) on my Lenovo W520 machine with a Nvidia Quadro 2000M graphics card.
Everything worked fine, except for my external monitor which was always laggy/glitchy. I thought this would be fixed if I installed my graphics card drivers, so I downloaded them from Nvidia's site (which was just a shell script I had to run).
However, now when it boots I get the to the fedora boot logo, and then it crashes and goes to a text screen seemingly showing a log of services starting up (like Account Manager, etc).
I can use ALT + Function keys to start a new tty session and use my machine, but as you might imagine it's a lot less convenient without a GUI. I tried running init 5, but it just flashes the boot screen logo again and hangs there.
I found a lot of people having the same issues online with Nvidia GeForce graphics cards, but because I use different drivers and installed the ones from Nvidia's site, none of the solutions seem to apply to me.
My dekstop environment is Gnome 3. I would appreciate any help in getting my GUI back.
Remove the drivers from nvidia's site and install them from rpmfusion. There are many questions here with instructions for you.
any pointers on how would I go about uninstalling the nvidia drivers (besides hunting down the files manually and removing them)? I tried re-running the shell script, but it had not uninstall options.