I have an Nvidia G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] graphics processor. Does anyone know how to update the graphics driver in Ubuntu 14.04?
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I just ordered the Nvidia GTX card. I have a dilemma, though. Should I keep using the driver which is available in "additional drivers" in Ubuntu, or should I install the driver from the Nvidia site?  So which driver is the best for me?
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I am using the  ppa. I got an update dialogue today which stated that I can update my nvidia driver to 367.18 (~gpu16.04.6). I started the update just like every time, but it failed with  Failed to get unit file state for var-lib-snapd-lib-gl.mount  After rebooting, my graphics driver was broken and I was forced to go into recovery mode.  As usually when my Nvidia driver breaks, I just uninstall it with  sudo apt purge nvidia* to reinstall it clean afterwards.   Doing this in recovery mode uninstalled all except the nvidia-opencl-icd-367 package which failed with the error above.   Trying to manually uninstall this package ends with these errors:       Update @20160605 - Solution:  Following Videonauth's answer below solves the issue. Please go through all the steps and make sure to reboot after removing everything of NVIDIA via sudo apt purge nvidia* succeeded without issues and after reinstalling the driver via sudo apt install nvidia-367.  This shall get your driver working again.   If this does not help, try to manually remove all old xorg configs sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf* &amp;&amp; sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reinstall the driver again sudo apt install nvidia-367 --reinstall.  If this still does not let you log back in (Typical error: Logins screen --> password has been entered, enter pressed --> goes back to login screen) try completely removing your Nvidia driver again from by switching into text console from the logscreen with Ctrl+Alt+F1, login with you account name and password, donwload the appropriate driver for your graphics card from  within console, stop lightdm:  sudo service lightdm  Install Nvidia's binary driver using sudo ./NVIDIA-VERSION...  and reboot system:  sudo reboot now  System:  Ubuntu 16.04 64bit  Linux 4.4.0-22
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I have 14.04.5/16.04 or newer and an AMD GPU. I'm not getting the performance I want, and some programs say they need things like OpenCL.  I've heard about fglrx, but if I try to install it on my machine, it breaks and I have no GUI.  Is there anything I can do to get my AMD card working to its full potential?
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I am looking for instructions on how to install cedarview graphics drivers on Ubuntu 13.04 32bit.  My graphics hardware is a GMA3600 aka Power VR SGX545.  EDIT: It seems that they are not in Raring yet, but only Precise:   EDIT2: they seem to be closed source.
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(Ubuntu 16.04) (GF9600GT)  Should I remove Nouveuau before install NVIDIA driver?
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The NVIDIA graphics driver on this PC is several versions out of date, so I went to upgrade it due to an unrelated issue. I went to the NVIDIA website, downloaded the 64-bit Windows 10 driver for the GT 720 GPU. I ran the installation as you normally would only to be met with the error "NVIDIA Installer Failed", and it told me the "Graphics Driver" failed to install.   Now I only have one usable monitor, the other is not detected, yet it turns on briefly as Windows initially loads the desktop.  What I Have Tried  Clean Installation  This is the first thing I tried, I restarted the computer, waited a while, and then I ran the NVIDIA driver installer, I selected "Custom Install", and then I ticked the "Clean Install" checkbox. This failed in the same way as before. Note, I also tried "Run[ning the updater] As Administrator".  Windows Update  I opened Windows Update to check for updates, since this can often fix failed driver installs. It said there was a NVIDIA driver update available, so began the update process. This failed with the error "0x80070003". I tried again, it failed again.  Manual Driver Install  From device manager, I right clicked on the GPU, and clicked "Update Driver Software", I opted to browse for driver files, with "Check subfolders" checked, and navigated to C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\368.39\ and clicked "OK". This failed with "Code 28".  Manual Driver Install (Automatic)  Same as before, except I let Windows find the driver online automatically, I presume it found the same files I had already downloaded, and downloaded them again. This failed.  I am still stuck with one working monitor, reduced graphical performance, and am unable to install the NVIDIA driver.  This is my work PC, so I don't have a huge amount of time to reinstall Windows, so I'd rather not do that, as I have various customisations in place, and lots of programs installed. It'd take a long time for me to do all of that again.    EDIT: More Info  There are no NVIDIA listings under "Uninstall a Program" in the Control Panel. Yet the "NVIDIA Control Panel" app is still in the start menu, but does not start. I believe that is because there are just three DLL files in C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\coprocmanager, and no other files/directories in coprocmanager's parent directory.  When the driver is installing, my second monitor starts working, and then stops when the installation fails.  When the driver is installing, it briefly appears as "NVIDIA GeForce GT 720" in Device manager, after it fails, it goes back to being labeled, quite simply, "Display".  Tried running...  PsExec.exe -i -s "C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\368.39\Win10_64\International\setup.exe"   ..to no avail.  PC Specs (from Speccy):   Custom build NVIDIA GeForce GT720 (not from Speccy, since it just lists the monitor under Graphics). Intel Core i5 4460 @ 3.20GHz 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28) ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. H81M-PLUS (SOCKET 1150)
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I've recently updated to Ubuntu 15.04 and after installing the latest nvidia drivers (346.59) which worked on ubuntu 14.10 seems to have caused some trouble on boot.  All I get is the following when booting:   A purple screen for about a second and then  [0.514409] ACPI PPC Probe failed. Starting version 219  A black screen with a message of my monitor saying : No Signal detected.   I am using a GTX 970.
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I have a NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060 graphics card - how do I have to install the NVIDIA drivers properly in Ubuntu 17.10? Is it the same procedure as in 17.04 or does the fact that Ubuntu 17.10 uses the Wayland session by default change something?
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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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My laptop has 1 GB Nvidia graphics card.   When i used windows i needed to install graphics card.   Now i am using ubuntu 14.04 with windows 8.1 as dual boot.  Do i need install a graphics driver for ubuntu? if yes how?
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Until now until Blender 2.83.4 my GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12288 MB is recognized via CUDA. With Blender 2.90 and Blender 2.90.1 no GPU is seen, also not under CUDA. What is wrong? I'am therefor still working with 2.83.4 My computer Mac Pro (mid 2012) 2 x 3,46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon / 96 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 - Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6
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Ubuntu can't be installed on my system because of what the title says. This is because support Intel HD Graphics 530 was only just added in Linux kernel 4.3 and all versions of Ubuntu only have kernel versions up to 4.2 as of 15.10. My computer's processor is the new Intel Skylake 6600K if you need to know, everything else is generic. It has a UEFI BIOS motherboard. Help?
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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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As Ubuntu 10.10 seems to neither detect my graphics card (Intel 82852/855GM) automatically nor use the corresponding Intel driver even after manually installing it, I am looking into manually configuring X (shouldn't I?). Where can I find the configuration files I need to edit?
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I had everything working fine, I use a number of openGL graphics software, example pymol, mgltools, vmd, ballview, rasmol etc.  All of these give the error:  Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".    and fail to initialize.  I have an i7 asus k53s with nvidia gforce   I need these to do my work.  I tried the umblebee fix, and just removing all nvidia drivers, or rolling back.  I do not know why these were working then stopped, but did notice a new nvidia console in the mu which I assume was from enabling the automatic nvidia feeds, etc?  I also played with the xorg, however have no clue what settings are valid.  In addition, the display is 50% of the time not recognized now?  It just gives a geeic 640x480 and I have to login and out 10 times to get it to return to a normal setting.  When I try and set it manual, there is no other setting allowed from the settings menus, and the terminal changes just get re set every time I log out?
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We want to set up a 3 screens with an onboard intel graphics adapter and an nvidia card.  Both cards are recognized in lspci   01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2) 00:02.0 Display controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)   And bascially work: If I switch to the console, I see output on the Intel card, X is only running on the Nvidia card.  But when I type xrandr | grep conn I get only one connected port:   DVI-I-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-I-1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 518mm x 324mm HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)   I am on Ubuntu 12.10 (and XFCE) and installed the proprietary nvidia driver.  I was assuming that X maybe has a problem to autodetect both cards, so I thought the following xorg.conf could help:   Section "ServerLayout"     Identifier     "Layout0"     Screen      0  "Screen0"     Screen      1  "Screen1"     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection  Section "Files" EndSection  Section "InputDevice"     # generated from default     Identifier     "Mouse0"     Driver         "mouse"     Option         "Protocol" "auto"     Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"     Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"     Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection  Section "InputDevice"     # generated from default     Identifier     "Keyboard0"     Driver         "kbd" EndSection  Section "Monitor"     Identifier     "Monitor0"     VendorName     "Unknown"     ModelName      "Unknown"     HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0     VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0     Option         "DPMS" EndSection  Section "Device"     Identifier     "Device0"     Driver         "nvidia"     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"     BoardName      "GeForce 210" EndSection  Section "Screen"     Identifier     "Screen0"     Device         "Device0"     Monitor        "Monitor0"     DefaultDepth    24     SubSection     "Display"         Depth       24     EndSubSection EndSection   Section "Monitor"     Identifier     "Monitor1"     VendorName     "Unknown"     ModelName      "Unknown"     HorizSync       28.0 - 33.0     VertRefresh     43.0 - 72.0     Option         "DPMS" EndSection  Section "Device"     Identifier     "Device1"     Driver         "intel"     VendorName     "Intel"     BoardName      "Internal Intel Graphics" EndSection  Section "Screen"     Identifier     "Screen1"     Device         "Device1"     Monitor        "Monitor1"     DefaultDepth    24     SubSection     "Display"         Depth       24     EndSubSection EndSection   But it is still not working.   Is this generally possible to use two different drivers in X ? Is it necessary to create an xorg.conf manually then? (because Ubuntu 12.10 normally works without the xorg.conf) Are there any errors in my xorg.conf?
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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.