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Fix nouveau driver issues on Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10, install NVIDIA drivers

I’ve had serious issues getting lightdm on Ubuntu 12.04 to work with my NVIDIA GTX580 graphics card. The problem is related to the OSS nouveau driver that comes bundled with lightdm on Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10. The nouveau driver by default is used instead of the proprietary NVIDIA closed source Read more…

By Benjamin Wiedmann, 13 years2012/06/02 ago

Linux

nVidia graphics driver on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

In a rootshell (sudo -s) type: apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates apt-get update apt-get install nvidia-current Reboot, and check if drivers are loaded: glxinfo | grep OpenGL The output should contain the driver version that was freshly installed at our previous session. We’re done!

By Benjamin Wiedmann, 13 years2012/05/27 ago

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