Have you tried this?
At grub enter E
to edit the boot command, remove quiet
and splash
and add nomodeset i915.modeset=0 nouveau.modeset=0
to the same line.
Then try again ALT-F5
to get a tty console after waiting a minute.
Disabling modesetting
You may want to disable KMS for various reasons, such as getting a blank screen or a “no signal” error from the display, when using the Catalyst driver, etc. To disable KMS add nomodeset
as a kernel parameter. See Kernel parameters for more info.
Along with nomodeset
kernel parameter, for Intel graphics card you need to add i915.modeset=0
and for Nvidia graphics card you need to add nouveau.modeset=0
. For Nvidia Optimus dual-graphics system, you need to add all the three kernel parameters (i.e. "nomodeset i915.modeset=0 nouveau.modeset=0"
).
Note: Some Xorg drivers will not work with KMS disabled. See the wiki page on your specific driver for details.