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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, 10 years2012/06/02 ago
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Installing proprietary NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 12.04 via PPA

Through PPA it’s as simple as: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nvidia-current Followup fix is here  

By Benjamin Wiedmann, 10 years2012/06/02 ago
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