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I am new to Linux and need some help, because I always fail to install Nvidia drivers.

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS version. After that I wanted to install Nvidia drivers, so I went to Software & Updates>Additional Drivers and choose "Using NVIDIA binary driver-version 352.63 from nvidia-352(proprietary, tested)" option. Everything seems to work, until I restart the PC. When I restart the PC it just loads black screen with this message "[ 0.472102] ACPI PCC probe failed" and it can't load to desktop.

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I tried with all the suggested Nvidia drivers from Additional Drivers and same problem appears with all of them. After every Nvidia driver install I reinstalled Ubuntu 14.04 because I couldn't load the OS.

I tried to fix it by doing

sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Change line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=off"
Ctrl-X, press Y and then Enter to save and exit.
sudo update-grub

It didn't work. All it did was that the message [ 0.472102] ACPI PCC probe failed didn't appear anymore and it was just black screen with a blinking line.

also tried 

sudo nano /etc/default/grub and changed
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"
sudo update-grub2

it didn't work also.

here is some hardware of my PC in case you need it:

Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme 3

CPU: Intelcore - i5 3570k

GPU: Asus Nvidia GTX 760 OC.

Right now I am using the default driver X.Org

Pierre.Vriens
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Veliko Kosev
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The proprietary nvidia driver should be used without KMS. You have to edit the /etc/default/grub file, use your favourite text editor (vi, nano, gedit, etc.):

sudo vi /etc/default/grub

Change the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" line to the following:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

Save the file, then run sudo update-grub Then reboot, and it should work.

If it still doesn't solve it, then remove also "quiet splash" from the previous line, and again sudo update-grub. (This will disable the graphical boot screen.)

The recovery booting did work, because the recovery menu entry had the nomodeset parameter. source: ACPI PPC Probe failed. Starting version 219 NVIDIA

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  • No its fine. If it worked for you please mark the answer as correct. – ashish Jan 03 '16 at 06:46
  • Thank you. Now after I restart PC, the message "ACPI PPC Probe failed" appear for a few seconds and the system continues to boot until it reaches the desktop.

    Should I worry that this message still appears for a few seconds ?

     – Veliko Kosev Jan 03 '16 at 06:46