I have Ubuntu ver. 12.04 and Nvidia ver. 304. After i updated my driver to 319 which is recommended in Additional Driver, I got stuck in the booting screen with something like: AppArmor etc. (black screen with yellow code) so i had to reinstall my OS.   Please could you help me how to install it correctly without error, because I am new with Linux.  Thank you very much!
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I recently installed the NVIDIA 319 driver from the Jockey window, and now X won't load! I'm stuck with a blinking cursor. I used to have the 304 drivers installed.  How do I fix this?
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Since installing Ubuntu 12.10 I have been playing around trying to get my Radeon HD 5450 gpu to work with the proprietary driver, as from the start installing the driver meant losing unity.  I won't list the steps I took as it is not a requirement to answering this question.  After taking one measure and then installing fglrx-updates, upon reboot the system hung at the purple screen. So I decided to boot using nomodeset  I edited  quiet splash $vt_handoff   to look like this  quiet splash nomodeset   Making this change I am then able to log in with Unity and the proprietary driver installed and performing well. I would go as far as to say it performs better than it did in 12.04  fglrxinfo reads  display: :0  screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series OpenGL version string: 4.2.11903 Compatibility Profile Context   Please note the way I have added nomodeset It had been a while since I have had to do this so it was done from memory. When looking for an answer to this question I came across  and discovered that my edit was supposed to go from  quiet splash $vt_handoff   to  nomodeset $vt_handoff   What has my nomodeset edit done? The only thing wrong that I have noticed is that I don't get the plymouth Ubuntu logo screen when booting.  If that is the only trade-off I am happy to make the edit permanant.
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Having found a lot of different questions on Ask Ubuntu regarding NVIDIA graphics drivers installation generating various issues and problems on Ubuntu systems - I do want to know:    What do Ubuntu users have to care about when installing the NVIDIA graphics drivers?    Explanation:  Being aware that this topic already has many good questions and answers it actually always stays up-to-date. One example : Many new notebooks come with hybrid graphics and Optimus support so they depend on proprietary NVIDIA drivers being installed to function properly but most of all existing posts point to  which doesn't provide the drivers anymore since ubuntu  was introduced, so many old answers are mostly obsolete or wrong.
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I had windows 10 but during a reset, it died ( I know my bad ). So I am attempting to wipe the drive and install ubuntu from a clean install but whenever I select to install ubuntu it only gives me a black screen. It's in UEFI and secure boot.  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
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I recently installed Ubuntu. Everything was working just fine until I wanted to change the selected driver for my laptop (Lenovo Y50) under the Additional Drivers tab in settings.   I added the ppa: graphics-drivers software source and then I selected the latest available driver. I don't remember the version. Then I proceeded to restart my computer, but now it just gets stuck at a black screen with the message /dev/sda2: clean, 290961/14106624 files, 4246276/56401920 blocks.   I can't use the CTRL + ALT + F1 (or F2...etc) shortcut, literally nothing happens when I try.
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After installing Ubuntu 10.04 I had some flickering issues, so I tried upgrading drivers and such, then I installed the fglrx driver and the flickering have gone away but when trying to access the TTY screens from 1-6 the screen goes blank. I'm able to get back in to gnome on tty7.  any one have a suggestion on what to try here?    Dennis  the output is:  glennwiz@Linux-laptop:~$ sudo cat /dev/vcs1  Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Linux-laptop tty1  Linux-laptop login:       Nerdfest im using radeon x1300  lspci output 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M52 [Mobility Radeon X1300] 02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller 02:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) 02:06.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller 02:06.4 Communication controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 GemCore based SmartCard controller 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5753M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 21) 10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)     Anyone have a suggestion?
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This is my first post in this forum. I am new to Linux, just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Sony Vaio VGN-Z12 with two graphic cards Intel and NVidia Geforce 9300 GS.  After the installation the lightdm works on Intel card but with very law display quality. I installed Nvidia driver from the official website as well as this PPA.  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nvidia-current       Once I installed the driver and run nvidia-xconfig which creates xorg.conf file, the xserver will not start with error "no screen". If I delete the xorg.conf file then I am able to start the xserver normally but with intel display (bad quality)
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I have been having some screen freezing issues on my new Ubuntu 16.04 system, and have been in the troubleshooting process for this issue. I thought it was a graphics driver problem, as I am running an AMD R9 380x card which was supposed to be fully supported by the open-source AMDGPU driver preinstalled with 16.04, but after looking around online, many people seem to have issues with. I thought the answer would be to install the recently released AMDGPU-Pro driver , following the instructions from . However, when I reboot I am getting a black screen. Is there an easy way to revert my changes back? My machine was semi-functional with the freezing issue but now with no video at all is useless to me. How to proceed?
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So I've been pulling my hair out over this for the last couple days now, I can't seem to find any solutions that work. I've fresh installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 on my system which has no other OS's running on it. Everything's fine aside from the fact that the default Nouveau display driver seems to be causing the UI to freeze sporadically every now and then. No problem right? Just install the proprietary drivers for my GPU and we should be golden? Well here's the thing, no matter how I try to get my GPU's drivers installed I always seem to hit some sort of issue. Here's what I've tried so far:   Switch to the proprietary driver from within the 'Software &amp; Updates' app in Ubuntu. For me the only option available is the 'NVIDIA binary driver - version 375.66 from nvidia-375 (proprietary, tested)'.    After selecting this driver it goes through the install process, asks me to 'configure secure boot' by entering a password, etc. This all seems to work fine initially until I reboot, but then before I see the login screen it seems to open a virtual terminal (usually accessed via alt+shift+F1), but then immediately boots me back to a black screen where it will flash this terminal for a split second every 4 seconds or so. I can access this terminal by using alt+shift+F1, and go on to use it as normal, but it will continually boot me back out to the black screen every few seconds. The only way I can solve this is to keep accessing the terminal each time it boots me out while I purge the nvidia drivers using sudo apt purge nvidia-*. After purging I'm then able to access the login screen and access my Ubuntu again as normal, besides having to reboot to presumably activate the Nouveau drivers again otherwise the resolution is all messed up and only one of my three monitors has anything displayed on it.    Using the steps listed  I download the latest stable/certified driver for my GPU (which as of writing this is version 384.69). However on step 3 where it instructs me to run the driver using sudo sh, I reach an issue where the installer informs me that I need to disable the Nouveau driver in order to continue. I've tried everything from uninstalling Nouveau using 'sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau` to blacklisting Nouveau using the steps listed , by editing the 'nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf'.    Unfortunately no matter what I do to try and disable Nouveau the installer always informs me that the Nouveau driver is enabled and needs to be disabled in order to continue. What's funny is that I managed to install the driver using this method once before, but for the life of me I can't get it to work again.    Finally, I've attempted to install the driver by installing the PPA. I run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa, sudo apt update, and finally going back into the 'Software &amp; Updates' app and select the 384.69 driver. However after going through the install process the same issue as described in my first method (1.) occurs.    I've also tried switching between gdm3 and lightdm with all 3 methods to no avail. I'm at a complete loss as to what to do. If anyone has any possible solutions I'd love to hear them, because right now I'm at the end of my tether.   If you require any further information just let me know and I'll be more than happy to provide it.   System info:   AMD FX-8350  Nvidia GeForce GT710 1gb  16gb RAM  Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 LTS
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I just updated my laptop from Ubuntu 14.10 to Ubuntu 15.04.  Now on a restart it fails to make it to the login prompt.  The system looks to be in a cycle of failure and I see the message repeatedly  [ OK ] Started Light Display Manager. [ OK ] Started ACPI event daemon.        Starting ACPI event daemon...        Starting Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service.... [ OK ] Started Network Manager Script Dispatcher Service.   The contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log show a segfault.  Sorry I can't copy the backtrace now, but the chain goes  /usr/bin/X /usr/bin/X /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so /usr/bin/X /usr/bin/X /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /usr/bin/X Segmentation fault at address 0x41   I'm on a Dell Precision m3800.  Since the nVidia driver is implicated in the stack trace, I'll start with swapping that out.  Any suggestions for my next steps to try to fix this?  thanks, Dennis
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I am new to Linux/Ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Lenovo IdeaPad y510.   System info says    Graphics: unknown.   Driver: unknown,   Experience: Standard.   What should I do to use all my laptop hardware components to work properly with Ubuntu? Screenshot:
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I want to ask a question I am a new user to Ubuntu and I am    going to install it on my PC and Remove Windows as I have read a lot    about Ubuntu and how it's solid based system and that it's more    stable and stronger but to be honest I am a bit afraid of installing    it as I don't have the drivers CD so Does Ubuntu need drivers or not    ? and how do I check that all the drivers are installed and updated    and work correctly ? and If I want to install a driver will Ubuntu    help me to search for it and install it ?  and will Ubuntu install the sound card . the internet card and the graphics etc. automatically or not waiting for your replies    cheers :)
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all. I'm trying to fix my system so I can install the nvidia drivers but it seems to get stuck for some reason. I have tried manually removing the downloaded files from   /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb   ... in order to let them download again but to no avail. Have anyone tried installing those drivers on 18.04 lately?  ~$ sudo apt --fix-broken install [sudo] password for jarl:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:   lib32gcc1 libc6-i386 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed:   libnvidia-gl-390 libnvidia-gl-390:i386 The following NEW packages will be installed   libnvidia-gl-390 libnvidia-gl-390:i386 0 to upgrade, 2 to newly install, 0 to remove and 4 not to upgrade. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/29,1 MB of archives. After this operation, 147 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 214344 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_i386.deb ... diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340 dpkg-divert: error: mismatch on package   when removing 'diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 by libnvidia-gl-390'   found 'diversion of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340' dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):  new libnvidia-gl-390:i386 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2 Preparing to unpack .../libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb ... diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340 dpkg-divert: error: mismatch on package   when removing 'diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 by libnvidia-gl-390'   found 'diversion of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.distrib by nvidia-340' dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb (--unpack):  new libnvidia-gl-390:amd64 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing:  /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_i386.deb  /var/cache/apt/archives/libnvidia-gl-390_390.48-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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I had the beta drivers running previously and after a standard update it stopped working. What I've tried so far:  sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*   Then downloaded drivers from Amd website and unzipped it and ran:  sudo ./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/trusty sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb   After this the Ubuntu  guide wants to make this:  aticonfig --initial   and it returns:  Unable to open /etc/ati/control, please reinstall the driver. aticonfig: No supported adapters detected   The adapter is 280x and as said, it worked previously with the same drivers and with the same installation procedure.  Any ideas?
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What happened  I was working on my laptop while it upgraded from 15.10 to 16.04 (which I admit was a mistake) when suddenly the Unity overlay disappeared and the only thing on screen was the Firefox browser window. I switched to a new terminal, logged in and tried to run sudo service lightdm restart but instead of restarting correctly, the screen started turning on and off repeatedly, which freaked me out, so I physically turned off the PC.  Long story short: I forced a shutdown halfway through the Ubuntu upgrade.  Ever since, any attempts of logging in normally have been met with a solid black screen and the idle whirring of the CPU fan.  What I have tried  I have tried the recovery mode boot up, but no luck (The log does greet "Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS!"). I tried out each option that seemed useful:   dpkg goes through the packages as advertised, but strangely enough it always locks up on some Braille package until I do Ctrl+C, at which moment it spouts some error messages and then I think throws me into the normal boot. failsafeX results in a similar situation to the normal boot: a black void. fsck says the single partition I have is a-ok. grub seems to get a bunch of stuff. Don't know if it searches locally or fetches from the internet. network didn't work I think.   I tried following  but couldn't do the sudo part because the filesystem was mounted as readonly. So I ran fsck which mounts as RW and tried again.   This time, after running apt-get autoremove it went through many packages (Setting up foobar (X.Y.ZubuntuN) ...), sometimes installing packages, which I assume is the usual behavior. One thing to note though is it kept getting stuck several times, so I had to Ctrl+C it out of processing the current package. It finally ended on "Processing was halted because there were too many errors.".  While  seems to mention some of the graphics problems I've been experiencing... I have Intel HD Graphics, not Nvidia. I'll keep looking into it.
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My problem is that after trying to update my driver through the additional drivers GUI I can't boot Ubuntu with GUI anymore, since Xorg says the kernel module is of version 304.88 (The old version before I updated) but the driver components are of version 319.32 (The new version)  This is the output of dpkg -l | grep nvidia  dkpg -l | grep nvidia ii nvidia-304 : 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.3  NVIDIA binary Xord driver, kernel module and VDPAU library ii nvidia-319 : 319.32-0ubuntu0.0.1  NVIDIA binary Xord driver, kernel module and VDPAU library ii nvidia-common : 1:0.2.44.2  Find obselete NVIDIA drivers ii nvidia-current : 304.88-0ubuntu0.0.3  Transitional package for nvidia-current ii nvidia-settings : 304.88-0ubuntu.0.0.3  Transitional package for nvidia-settings ii nvidia-settings-304 : 304.88-0ubuntu.0.0.3  Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver ii nvidia-settings-319 : 319.32-0ubuntu.0.0.1  Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver   That's the output of that file.  The message startx gives me is:  NVIDIA: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 304.88, but this NVIDIA driver component has version 319.32. Please make sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version.     Fatal server error:    no screens found   I understand that something went wrong during the update, so I wonder how to fix this so that the remaining parts of 304 are removed and replaced with 319. I don't know hwere to start because I thought that nvidia-current was the one that would update to 319 and so reinstalling that didn't work. And I googled and found that somebody said to try to install/reinstall/uninstall this package: nvidia-current-updates-dev  But I didn't have that package installed so it did not help. Other than that, I am clueless. I hope the information I provided will be enough so I can get an answer soon.  EDIT:  lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Release: 12.04 Codename: precise  uname -a Linux SQuad 3.2.0-52-generic #78-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 26 16:21:44 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/LINUX
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I have installed Ubuntu GNOME 15.10. I installed the nvidia tested proprietary driver and then I restarted. Afterr that I selected as primary GPU the Intel driver for normal use. However, when I enter a steam game(Portal) the graphics is bad so In order to play normal I have to switch manually to the nvidia driver again and reboot again. After the game I have to manually select as primary driver the Intel one and reboot again. It is so boring. QUESTION: How to automatically switch gpu graphics driver when I enter a game or something that needs more GPU?