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My Ubuntu screen resolution is far too low, and there is no option to change it to a different resolution in settings. I have a GTX 1650 graphics card, so I believe the problem is that the correct Nvidia graphics card driver is not installed. Am I correct?

I downloaded the correct driver but I am having trouble installing it because I don't really know how to stop the X server and get into text only mode. (I'm new at this.)

Would you mind walking me through the steps necessary to install the correct driver and get my resolution working?

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    Do not install from the binaries downloaded from Nvidia. Instead add the graphics drivers PPA and then just open Additional Drivers and there select and apply the latest version. –  Jun 19 '19 at 15:19
  • A good post on adding PPAs in general is found at https://askubuntu.com/questions/496495/can-a-ppa-repository-be-added-to-etc-apt-source-list and https://askubuntu.com/questions/760934/graphics-issues-after-while-installing-ubuntu-16-04-16-10-with-nvidia-graphics has instructions to add the PPA for graphics. To get into a text only terminal screen, press {Ctrl-Alt-F1} – K7AAY Jun 19 '19 at 16:32

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@GabrielaGarcia This worked:

Do not install from the binaries downloaded from Nvidia. Instead add the graphics drivers PPA and then just open Additional Drivers and there select and apply the latest version.

I used the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-430 nvidia-settings
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