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Questions tagged [nvidia]

Questions related to the NVIDIA graphics and motherboard chipsets and the related drivers.

NVIDIA (sometimes written nVidia, n-Vidia, nVIDIA, etc.) is a microchip manufacturer that specializes in graphics and mobile (ARM architecture) processors and recently in SOC (System On a Chip) and Super Computer microchips.

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Blank screen after installing nvidia restricted driver

I've installed the current nvidia restricted driver and rebooted my machine and now I get a black or blank screen. How can I fix this?
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How do I disable the "Nouveau Kernel Driver"?

I'm trying to install proprietary nvidia graphics driver I downloaded from nvidia website. It will not install because it says that the "Nouveau kernel driver" needs to be disabled first. I opened synaptic and uninstalled everything that had nvidia,…
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Nvidia API mismatch

I had planned a day of relaxing with Portal 2 but on starting Steam (for the first time in a couple of weeks) I was greeted with the following message in the terminal: Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 270.41.19, but this…
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Nvidia driver install Ubuntu 16.04

I have the following message currently on screen after accepting the licence The distribution-provided pre-install script failed! Are you sure you want to continue? Is it safe to proceed? What does this mean?
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How do we get NVidia to make nvidia-settings a less terrible piece of software?

Ever since I've been asking this question, the predominant answer has been something to the effect of "well one day we'll have free drivers so we can just ignore the problem" But, in the meantime, NVidia-settings has been so awful it's been scaring…
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How can I reconfigure the nvidia proprietary drivers from the command line (ssh)?

I have a linux HTPC (running XBMC) in my living room. This morning I ssh'ed into the machine and did upgrade it to 10.10. When it finaly resarted it says something about running in low quality graphics and eventually returned to a command line login…
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS freezing about every 10-15 seconds

Since upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS my desktop freezes up for about 1-3 seconds and this happens every 15-20 seconds even when doing very simple tasks such as browsing the internet or doing nothing at all. My system is completely updated and I have…
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How to turn off my graphic card led Logo (Gigabyte Nvidia GTX970)

On windows its possible to turn it off with geforce-experience and it seems that it doesn't do it definitly, it does it by software on the driver...
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How can I get TTYs to work with NVIDIA drivers?

If I'm debugging my graphics driver, I rely on the commandlines I can access by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6. However, after installing the latest NVIDIA drivers, the screen goes black when I switch to those TTYs. How can I get the TTYs to work with the…
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Good NVidia drivers for a GeForce GT 330M on a VAIO laptop?

With the latest 3 distribution versions of Ubuntu I've always had problems with NVidia GPUs. Even when I installed the official commercial drivers (which are not in the repositories and are shown as proprietary) I also had problems with the…
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What does gpu-manager do?

I am trying to understand what gpu-manager actually does. My searching has only found to disable it in grub and comment out gpu-manager.conf due to it overwriting xorg.conf. I am running 14.04 Xubuntu, 3 Nvidia 970's and their binary driver.…
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Nvidia graphics card driver installed led to login loop

I am using Ubuntu 15.10 Desktop - 64 bit version on intel Core I7 - quad core laptop with 16 GB RAM, 4 GB Graphics card(Nvidia GTX 950M). After successful install - Ubuntu was freezing due to inbuilt and default graphics driver from Ubuntu is not…
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How to get rid of NVIDIA PowerMizer?

I've been trying to turn off nvidia PowerMizer (that is set the performance level to 2 - max). I can do it with nvidia-settings, but it goes back to default after restart. Here's what I have tried: nvidia-settings as root - saving settings to…
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Prime-run command not found

Command prime-run outputs prime-run: command not found. I have Ubuntu 20.04.3 and nvidia-driver-470
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How to install my NVidia driver?

I am a Ubuntu user for over 15 years now and love it except for the difficultly in installing display drivers sometimes. This year I have been unable to install one on my Desktop successfully which has a Nvidia Geforce 9800GT card. I can get it to…
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