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In Additional Drivers under Software & Updates, the NVIDIA driver is stuck on Continue using a manually installed driver, and all other options are greyed out.

I want to set the driver to proprietary driver(nvidia-driver-390), which was originally selected before I changed it to the open source driver, but now it is stuck.

How can I resolve this issue? Should remove all NVIDIA drivers and install them again? If so , how to do it safely in Ubuntu 20.04?

Additional info:

  1. cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log output: https://termbin.com/hqo3

  2. lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' output: https://termbin.com/bog0

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  • Please [edit] your question and add output of lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' terminal command. – Pilot6 May 09 '20 at 18:23
  • The proprietary dtiver is installed now. It must be a bug in GUI. – Pilot6 May 09 '20 at 18:27
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    but how can i change the driver? it is not letting me change as they are greyed out. – vikrant May 09 '20 at 18:28
  • What do you want to change? Did you reboot? – Pilot6 May 09 '20 at 18:28
  • The 390 is the only applicable driver for this card. It is installed now? – Pilot6 May 09 '20 at 18:29
  • yes, i did multiple times by now, i will try once again. i want to select dfferent drivers available, as i have observed that the xorg process is using a lot of cup – vikrant May 09 '20 at 18:30
  • What are "other drivers available"? There should be nouveau and 390. – Pilot6 May 09 '20 at 18:30
  • yes the 390 is installed and was selected initially, but i changed it to the open source driver, and it hanged and now it is stuck. i want to try selecting out open source and 390 again – vikrant May 09 '20 at 18:31
  • Try to run sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall. – Pilot6 May 09 '20 at 18:32
  • other options are 390, 340, and open source version – vikrant May 09 '20 at 18:32
  • ok i did autoinstall, and now it is installing a bunch of stuff related to nvidia – vikrant May 09 '20 at 18:33
  • Reboot after it is installed and see if it is fixed. – Pilot6 May 09 '20 at 18:34
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    @Pilot6 yes that did solve the issue. now the 390 is selected, and the "continue to use a manually installed driver" option is gone. i searched quite a bit about this issue and a lot of people have gotten this issue in the past, the way they solved it involved a lot of complex steps like uninstalling and installing. I am grad it was really this simple to solve it. i have also noticed that now it is using a lot less cpu. you should post this as an answer. – vikrant May 09 '20 at 18:41

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This problem should be fixed by running

sudo ubuntu-drivers install

after a reboot.

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    This one works for me, but after reboot, my mouse becomes lag. It is like: I move my mouse from right to left, half seconds later, the mouse on the screen starts moving. Could anyone help please? – Franva Apr 07 '21 at 23:35
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    I'm here to report that my computer just underwent this procedure and that no mouse lag was detected after reboot. My Nvidia driver went from 450 to 460 on a GeForce 920M. – ahmed Jun 19 '21 at 15:45
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    I tried doing this and I see this: The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-driver-470 : Depends: libnvidia-gl-470 (= 470.57.02-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: libnvidia-gl-470:i386 (= 470.57.02-0ubuntu1) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. – drfence Aug 20 '21 at 20:44
  • I see when running ubuntu-drivers -h to see the help text, the following: autoinstall Deprecated, please use "install" instead. I can't say why this is, but just something to note. – King Holly Mar 25 '22 at 18:54
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    Works for Ubuntu 22.04.1. – marcelocra Oct 01 '22 at 13:27
  • this immediately fixed my issue with my secondary monitor not working, it also seemed to pull my old configuration (left monitor is the secondary monitor). thanks. – Edward Dec 09 '22 at 12:39
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    This solved my problem (couldn't select drivers). ** NOTE ** Upon reboot the system hung up, after displaying a lot of diagnostics. I rebooted into Ubuntu recovery mode, selected fix broken packages (and authorized a remount), and when I rebooted everything was okay. – Kyle Dec 01 '23 at 00:41
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I encountered myself in a similar situation because of broken packages (Ubuntu complained on launching sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall; further in Software & Updates -> Additional Drivers my Nvidia graphics was locked to manual installation). I solved it like this:

  1. Remove all nvidia packages and make sure nouveau is installed (you need sudo rights):
dpkg -P $(dpkg -l | grep nvidia-driver | awk '{print $2}')
apt autoremove
apt install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
  1. Reboot
  2. Reinstall latest nvidia packages (again, sudo rights):
ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
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    Awesome, I followed your guide and it worked,

    Thanks,

     – Thinh NV Oct 03 '21 at 17:47
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    Seems to be the current way of getting it working in Ubuntu 22.04.1 a.k.a install Noveau drivers - reboot - install new one. – Sami Hulkko Aug 19 '22 at 15:40
  • I had a problem with 1024x768 resolution, and after 2. step it started working. I will try to work on opensource drivers for now, cause nvidia drivers give me the resolution problem after almost every update. – Ruslan Plastun Jul 02 '23 at 05:26
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I also couldn't update to a newer Nvidia driver because a manual driver was installed, in my case from 470 to 510 driver on an Focal Desktop system of Canonical.

My solution was:

  1. Open a terminal and run the command:

    sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

    The above will install the newest recommended driver.

  2. Wait until all automatic commands are executed and reboot the system.

  3. The Linux kernel loaded the 510 driver.

  4. Checked Additional Drivers in Software & Updates, which points to Nvidia 510 driver.

The accidentally selected manual driver option was removed.

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Here is my solution for the mouse lag situation. open NVIDIA Settings.

$ nivdia-settings

select this -> PRIME Profiles - NVIDIA (Performance Mode)

after reboot, your mouse or the animation of Ubuntu is as smooth as it used to be.

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I've also faced the issue of being unable to select a driver other than Continue using a manually installed driver.

sudo ubuntu-drivers install nvidia-driver-525 only reported that I already have that driver installed.

What fixed the issue for me was:

  1. sudo apt purge nvidia-driver* (followed by sudo apt autoremove just to be sure)
  2. sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (to have at least some driver)
  3. Reboot
  4. sudo apt install nvidia-driver-525 (this is the important part that differs from other guides, the rest is more or less the same)
  5. Reboot

And then I could see the appropriate proprietary driver selected.

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