Nvidia on Ubuntu: Difference between revisions

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== GUI is stuck ==

[[File:Proprietary Drivers selection in Software Sources GUI.png|thumb|Unable to select a proprietary driver in "Software Sources"]]

In theory, the GUI (see image) allows you to effortlessly choose and switch between multiple drivers. ~~[https://~~www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGfi1ldBqc ~~This YouTube video] even shows how it~~'~~s supposed~~ to ~~work~~. In practice, at least on my system, installing a second driver is not possible from a Graphical desktop environment.

In theory, the GUI (see image) allows you to effortlessly choose and switch between multiple drivers. There are even YouTube videos that show how it's supposed to work<ref>I do not want to link to AI-generated content that creates a worse Internet, but this is what I'm refering to www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGfi1ldBqc The bot doesn't respond to questions, so is my experience different because I have Secure Boot enabled? Is my experience different because something changed in the OS between Ubuntu 20 and Ubuntu 24?</ref>. In practice, at least on my system, installing a second driver is not possible from a Graphical desktop environment.

If you go into the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for "System Settings" and then "Hardware -> Driver Manager" it would appear to allow you to simply choose to use a proprietary driver from Nvidia. But all the choices are disabled (grayed out). Every attempt I made to "install an Nvidia driver" - whether through a graphical package manager like Synaptic, or the CLI using apt or dpkg, would just result in a "non-working" graphics system where I didn't even have dual monitor support.

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=== See Also ===

* [[{{PAGENAMEE}}/ubuntu-drivers|ubuntu-drivers (command)]]

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 == GUI is stuck ==
 [[File:Proprietary Drivers selection in Software Sources GUI.png|thumb|Unable to select a proprietary driver in "Software Sources"]]
-In theory, the GUI (see image) allows you to effortlessly choose and switch between multiple drivers. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGfi1ldBqc This YouTube video] even shows how it's supposed to work. In practice, at least on my system, installing a second driver is not possible from a Graphical desktop environment.
+In theory, the GUI (see image) allows you to effortlessly choose and switch between multiple drivers. There are even YouTube videos that show how it's supposed to work<ref>I do not want to link to AI-generated content that creates a worse Internet, but this is what I'm refering to www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGfi1ldBqc The bot doesn't respond to questions, so is my experience different because I have Secure Boot enabled? Is my experience different because something changed in the OS between Ubuntu 20 and Ubuntu 24?</ref>. In practice, at least on my system, installing a second driver is not possible from a Graphical desktop environment.
 If you go into the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for "System Settings" and then "Hardware -> Driver Manager" it would appear to allow you to simply choose to use a proprietary driver from Nvidia. But all the choices are disabled (grayed out). Every attempt I made to "install an Nvidia driver" - whether through a graphical package manager like Synaptic, or the CLI using apt or dpkg, would just result in a "non-working" graphics system where I didn't even have dual monitor support.
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 === See Also ===
 * [[{{PAGENAMEE}}/ubuntu-drivers|ubuntu-drivers (command)]]
+{{References}}