Nvidia on Ubuntu: Difference between revisions

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I still do not have the Nvidia driver loaded - even after 40+ reboots and attempts. Instead I'm using the Nouveau driver but at least I have a working system and I believe now that I've finally figured out what needs to be done to disable Nouveau and install Nvidia - a project that I might tackle shortly. I'm just documenting the things that I encountered in this journey so that I can pick it back up at the right time.

== Opposite ==

To go the opposite route, purging all proprietary drivers and installing the open source Nouveau driver, there's a good albeit older tutorial at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-uninstall-the-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa-linux

== GUI is stuck ==

If you go into the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for "System Settings" and then "Hardware -> Driver Manager" where it would appear to allow you to simply choose to use a different (proprietary) driver other than Nouveau, and you find that the choices are all disabled (grayed out), that is because no other driver is found on the system. You would need to download a driver through your package manager first.

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

== X.org ==

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 I still do not have the Nvidia driver loaded - even after 40+ reboots and attempts. Instead I'm using the Nouveau driver but at least I have a working system and I believe now that I've finally figured out what needs to be done to disable Nouveau and install Nvidia - a project that I might tackle shortly. I'm just documenting the things that I encountered in this journey so that I can pick it back up at the right time.
+== Opposite ==
+To go the opposite route, purging all proprietary drivers and installing the open source Nouveau driver, there's a good albeit older tutorial at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-uninstall-the-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa-linux
+== GUI is stuck ==
+If you go into the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for "System Settings" and then "Hardware -> Driver Manager" where it would appear to allow you to simply choose to use a different (proprietary) driver other than Nouveau, and you find that the choices are all disabled (grayed out), that is because no other driver is found on the system. You would need to download a driver through your package manager first.
+[[File:Proprietary Drivers selection in Software Sources GUI.png|thumb|Unable to select a proprietary driver in "Software Sources"]]
 == X.org ==