Ubuntu disables its own Nouveau graphics driver and installs NVIDIA graphics drivers

Download video Driver

• Go to Nvidia's website and find the driver for the Linux 64-bit that corresponds to the GTX 750 graphics card and download
• When you click on the download link, you find that the browser has been loading that *.run file for a long time. At this point the browser address bar address copy down, and then into the Baidu network disk, offline download, and then paste URL, wait a moment, download is completed (in fact, the. Run file is more than 70 MB of files, no wonder the browser is fast loading to get stuck);
• Then it's easy to download the drive directly to the hard drive.

Installation drive

Because it is a newly installed operating system and does not have an open source version of Nvidia driver installed, the official driver can be installed directly below.

• First make sure the downloaded file is in the /home/user directory, of course, other directories can also;
• Next, NVIDIA**.run Add executable permissions for the driver:sudo chmod +x NVIDIA**.run
• Close X-Window , very simple: sudo service lightdm stop , and then switch to Tty1: Ctrl+Alt+F1 you can
• In the pure character interface, login user;
• Next is the most critical step: Start the sudo ./NVIDIA.run installation, the installation process is relatively fast, according to the prompt to choose
• If the installation is 64-bit, the middle will prompt the 32-bit library can not install the hint, this is normal, OK to continue OK;
• After the final installation, reboot X-Window : and sudo service lightdm start then Ctrl+Alt+F7 enter the graphical interface;
• At this point, you can find the software in the apps that Ubuntu has installed, and NVIDIA X Server Settings you can see the GPU0 GeForce GTX 750, where the graphics driver is installed.

Installs the official driver of Nvidia graphics card and the system comes with Nouveau drive conflict.

Install the online method to try the various changes in the modprob.d/blacklist.conf, after the restart is still not successful police nouveau drive

Finally see a method:

Remove this driver directly (back up)

# Mv/lib/modules/3.0.0-12-generic/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko/lib/modules/3.0.0-12-generic/kernel /drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko.org

Reload a bit

# Update-initramfs-u

Reboot found the font has become larger, uninstall succeeded.

Ubuntu disables its own Nouveau graphics driver and installs NVIDIA graphics drivers