(2014-04-09, 00:52)nickr Wrote: 12.04 should give you nvidia 304 drivers. What is the output of Code:
dpkg -l nvidia-current
There were multiple instances of nvidia drivers, 304, 331, updates, settings etc. I've purged them all and have just installed 331, rebooted and it displayed Grub. I selected Ubuntu the first option on the list and it looks like it's booting to the desktop now. I'm just going to have a poke around in the nvidia settings.
Poking around with the video drivers always makes me a bit nervous. I had to rebuild my box a few years ago whilst trying to update the xorg.conf manually and I didn't know how to recover from it. I know a bit more now but I'm still learning
I can't get into the nvidia server settings, it doesn't launch when I click it.
dpkg -l nvidia-current shows dpkg-query: no packages found matching nvidia-current
dpkg -l | grep nvidia shows
ii nvidia-331 331.20-0ubuntu1~xedgers~quantal1 i386 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-persistenced 331.20-0ubuntu1~xedgers~quantal1 i386 Load the NVIDIA kernel driver and create device files
If I do sudo apt-get install nvidia-current I get:-
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libmicrohttpd5 linux-headers-3.5.0-18 linux-headers-3.5.0-18-generic python-sip
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libcuda1-304 nvidia-304 nvidia-libopencl1-304 nvidia-opencl-icd-304 nvidia-settings
The following packages will be REMOVED
nvidia-331
The following NEW packages will be installed
libcuda1-304 nvidia-304 nvidia-current nvidia-libopencl1-304 nvidia-opencl-icd-304 nvidia-settings
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 38.8 MB/39.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 43.8 MB disk space will be freed.
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So it looks as though it think the current nvidia driver is 304 and not 331 which should be supported for my GPU.
I guess at the moment I'm missing some stuff which is why I can't launch nvidia server settings.