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Linux Black Desktop Screen (elementaryOS)

I recently installed elementaryOS and everything was working fine until I changed the drivers in the Additional Drivers section.
I then tried changing back to the drivers previously used and others but to no avail. I can see the menu bar at the top and run applications, but the whole desktop just appears black.

Here is some info.

Code:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 310] (rev a2)



  *-display              

      description: VGA compatible controller

      product: GT218 [GeForce 310]

      vendor: NVIDIA Corporation

      physical id: 0

      bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0

      version: a2

      width: 64 bits

      clock: 33MHz

      capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom

      configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0

      resources: irq:44 memory:fa000000-faffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:ce000000-cfffffff ioport:ec00(size=128) memory:fbe80000-fbefffff

[1]+  Done                    lspci | grep --color=auto VGA

How can I fix this issue?

Set a desktop wallpaper?

I've tried. I tried to set a wallpaper many times but to no avail. The login screen does change its wallpaper but the desktop doesn't.

Post output of

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lsmod

Same problem here, only difference is that it did that when I turned off "Mirror Screens"
my lsmod output is

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by

snd_wavefront          34737  0 

snd_usb_audio        101566  1 

snd_usbmidi_lib        24588  1 snd_usb_audio

snd_cs4236            29294  0 

snd_wss_lib            30063  2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236

snd_opl3_lib          18863  2 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236

snd_hwdep              13276  3 snd_wavefront,snd_usb_audio,snd_opl3_lib

snd_mpu401            13847  0 

snd_mpu401_uart        13865  3 snd_wavefront,snd_cs4236,snd_mpu401

psmouse                86520  0 

snd_seq_midi          13132  0 

snd_seq_midi_event    14475  1 snd_seq_midi

k8temp                12905  0 

serio_raw              13027  0 

snd_seq                51592  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event

snd_rawmidi            25424  4 snd_wavefront,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi

snd_intel8x0          33455  2 

snd_ac97_codec        110213  1 snd_intel8x0

ac97_bus              12642  1 snd_ac97_codec

snd_pcm                80916  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_cs4236,snd_wss_lib,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec

gspca_stv06xx          24095  0 

snd_seq_device        14172  4 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi

gspca_main            27654  1 gspca_stv06xx

snd_timer              28931  4 snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq,snd_pcm

snd_page_alloc        14108  3 snd_wss_lib,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

joydev                17393  0 

videodev              86588  1 gspca_main

snd                    62218  22 snd_wavefront,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_cs4236,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer

i2c_nforce2            12906  0 

ns558                  12654  0 

soundcore              14635  1 snd

gameport              15060  2 ns558

rfcomm                38139  0 

bnep                  17830  2 

asus_atk0110          17742  0 

bluetooth            158447  10 rfcomm,bnep

parport_pc            32114  1 

ppdev                  12849  0 

mac_hid                13077  0 

lp                    17455  0 

parport                40930  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp

radeon                738016  3 

ttm                    65344  1 radeon

drm_kms_helper        45466  1 radeon

usbhid                41937  0 

hid                    77428  1 usbhid

drm                  197641  5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper

usb_storage            39646  0 

floppy                60184  0 

forcedeth              58096  0 

i2c_algo_bit          13199  1 radeon

sata_nv                23360  2 

pata_amd              13750  0

I discovered that this wil work:
http://davidvos2.16mb.com/eos-screen1.png
And this wont work (no wallpaper):
http://davidvos2.16mb.com/eos-screen2.png