[SOLVED] - Major Maui Meltdown.

[leszek]

Would no NVidia driver in-use = no Plasma Desktop Effects?

No the nouveau driver should be able to provide OpenGL support.

To remove the nvidia driver use the driver manager to choose nouveau.


P.S.: Ok new idea. Before you try anything with the nividia -> nouveau thing try first switching the plymouth theme to something else. I guess the non readable text might be an issue of the default plymouth theme (having the colors set wrongly or problems on setting them with nvidia-kms).
So please run

Code:

sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth

in a terminal. It should allow you switching the default theme to spinner.plymouth at least. (by default the only other option)
Try doing that.
After that it is important to update the initramfs for the changes to also land in initrd.
So run [code]sudo update-initramfs -u[/b] aswell.

After that try restarting with a normal boot. You should see another bootsplash and hopefully some error message whith which we can analyze whats going wrong on your machine all the sudden.