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So, long story short my Asus P8Z77-v Pro died on Sunday (the second one I've had die) so I got myself an AsRock P77 Extreme4 to tide me over/replace it.

Problem is that when I goto install my NVIDIA Proprietary Drivers Ubuntu cannot find any. The 'Additional Drivers' searches and finds nothing.

I have Downloaded the Latest directly from NVIDIA to try a manual install tonight but I'd rather have this simple and useful feature work. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this?

Side note: I used the same Flash disk to install 13.10 and everything else seems to work, even the 2 displays coming off of this gfx card, just not using decent drivers that support OpenGL etc...

Thanks,

Noki
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  • Only difference between this system and what I had before Sunday is the Mainboard. That's all. – Noki Feb 27 '14 at 17:49

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The easiest way would be to directly install nvidia-current package from the repository. You can also try 

apt-get update --fix-missing

to fix any repository mismatches, in case that happened and that's why the additional driver software can't find you the driver you want.

aroll605
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  • Just tried that, no errors on install. But now after grub I get a black low res screen and a cursor, that's all seems it's more than just a missing driver. Thanks though that is useful to know! – Noki Feb 27 '14 at 20:00
  • And recovery mode to autoremove nvidia-current give two full res screens but both black and with a cross as the cursor. – Noki Feb 27 '14 at 20:07
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So, after many failed attempts with varying results I have FIXED this problem. I at one point managed to get my NVIDIA drivers installed manually whilst breaking half of Ubuntu. It did however work well enough to login running the proprietary drivers so I knew it would work.

Annoyingly the eventual solution was rather simple, annoying since it's taken all my free time this week when I could have fixed it in 3 minutes.

The Fix

After a fresh install of 13.10 do the following:

jockey-text -l

Shows a list of drivers that should show up in the Additional Drivers menu option. Then I ran the 'activation' for the top item:

sudo jockey-text -e kmod:nvidia_319_updates

2 minutes later and BAM it worked!

It still fails to find additional drivers in the system settings menu, or even show that I am currently running one. But this is definitely fixed! :)

Thanks to:

How can I reconfigure the nvidia proprietary drivers from the command line (ssh)?

Useful:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1741754

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1744248

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Noki
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    That's just frustratingly simple. Thanks for posting this. – aroll605 Mar 01 '14 at 16:27
  • Indeed! With a clear head I looked at the problem differently, not how do I install the drivers manually, instead how do I fix/workaround jockey. – Noki Mar 01 '14 at 17:35
  • jockey-common is now surpassed by ubuntu-drivers in 14.04. I have logged a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/+bug/1310568 – Noki Apr 24 '14 at 19:38
  • Now fixed in Ubuntu 14.04. – Noki Jul 01 '14 at 22:54
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I was able to solve this problem on Ubuntu 14.04 by installing the xorg-edgers ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa -y
sudo apt-get update

The drivers now show up under the additional drivers tab.

You can determine which driver to install by visiting http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx and filling in the details about your graphics card and system.

Mageek
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  • This was fixed in later versions for me, plus since I have switched to manually installing them. http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2015/01/install-nvidia-346-35-ubuntu-1404/ – Noki Jun 12 '15 at 13:07