I have an NVIDIA GT 540M (based on lspci output) graphics card and am trying to install its drivers. I have tried various options like downloading from NVIDIA's website, CUDA 4.2 homepage (Cannot post more than 2 links) and apt-get (apt-get install nvdia-current) (also through "Additional Drivers" app, but I guess it is same as apt-get) but I am unable to install it. After searching online, it seems I should have files like /dev/nvidia** but I don't have it.
nvidia-smi always returns the same error:
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (No such file or directory).
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with NVIDIA driver. Make sure that latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
I followed this tutorial too.
And everytime I install the driver, my resolution drops to 640x480 and no matter what is doesn't change. I have to apt-get purge nvidia* then install xserver again to get it back right, or reinstall Ubuntu.
I have installed Ubuntu 4 times already to get this right, but nothing works. Can someone please help me out with this.
I have a 32-bit system running Ubuntu 12.04.
Thanks
