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For the life of me I can never get graphics working on my Lifebook. Using Nvidia current means that X never starts.

NVIDIA GeForce GT720M with 2GB Dedicated Video Memory (Optional)
Intel HD Graphics 4600

Can someone point me in the right direction?

karel
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Alan Shaw
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  • Terribly sorry for the threadnomancy, but after following the link I now cannot get X at all. I've been trying to sort this out on my own with no luck. I'm posting this using a Ubuntu Live usb stick. The errors I get are related to Fatal Error No screens found and undefined screen nvidia – Alan Shaw Mar 30 '15 at 20:11

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I was able to get my GTX970 running on 14.10 with the help of this fine site

The easiest and cleanest way to do this is to get it from the xorg-edgers PPA

You will want to run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-346

NOTE: These packages are updated frequently and sometimes certain builds disappear so if your install command doesn't pull through you will want to go to the PPA on launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Generally just look for the newest number unless you know exactly what your looking for.

Now rejoice in the glory of your functional video card!

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