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Need help loading NVIDIA driver

Asked by Kurt

I am trying to install NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8174.pkg1.run, but when I double click on the nvidia-installer, nothing happens.

I have also tried the command line type commands to run and install it to no avail.

Please inform about this running it as a 'root' command as well.

Any help, please be detailed and step by step since I am very new (first time to linux) to this

Thanks,
Kurt

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

Did you know that you can install the nvidia driver using Synaptic, it's packaged in ubuntu, no need to download the installer from nvidia.com.

Follow these instructions:-

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia

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Kurt (kfitzenreiter) said : 		#2

Perhaps I jumped the gun. My real issue is that when I scroll down a web page, the scroll is choppy. I assumed that the driver, or lack thereof, was causing this behavior.

What do you think??

Kurt

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Best Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#3

The performance of the binary driver is indeed better at the expense of freedom and potentially security. What driver are you using right now? If you go to Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal and type the following:-

grep nv /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver

If you see "nvidia" then you have the binary nvidia driver. If you see "nv" then you have the open source driver. If you have nv and you want to try the binary nvidia driver I would recommend you check that page I mentioned:-

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia

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Kurt (kfitzenreiter) said : 		#4

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