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My Ubuntu 12.04 only shows up black screen when starting up some days ago suddenly. Since I can desktop through recovery mode (resume in recovery mode, and the resolution is wrong), I believe there's something wrong with my video card driver. So I go to nvidia's website, download the driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-310.44.run, and installed it successfully.

Now, while I can get the following output with lspci | grep -i nvidia

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 335M] (rev a2)

the driver seems not to be activated.

When I start up NVIDIA X Server settings, it shows up a message box saying

You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run nvidia-xconfig as root), and restart the X server.

But I do run xnvidia-config successfully, and also reboot the system.

What's more, the "Additional Drivers" is blank, saying

No proprietary drivers are in use on this system

Could anybody give some hints on how to deal with this problem? Thanks a lot!

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  • As 13.04 has been released, and there had been some problems before I upgraded to 12.04, reinstalling my ubuntu seems to be a good idea to me, so, I did it. Really enjoy 13.04!
    – dehiker
    May 6, 2013 at 14:06
  • where do you download this 310 driver
    – user293402
    Jun 14, 2014 at 3:55

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I was also facing the same problem. Now that you asked it, I wanted to fix in my computer as well. So here is how you do it.

EDIT: sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

sudo nvidia-xconfig. This will just create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Next do

sudo software-properties-gtk

You should see something like this

enter image description here

Select Additional Drivers tab and select the latest NVIDIA driver as I have selected here.

Now reboot. This reboot might take a long time. No need to worry. If it takes more than 10 minutes with the black screen, even after rebooting, restart with Ctrl+Alt+Del or even hard reset (keep pressing the power button as long as needed). It should work properly now.

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    Thank you for your reply, thefourtheye! Sadly, "sudo software-properties-gtk" have no "additional driver" tab on my laptop
    – dehiker
    Apr 27, 2013 at 16:06
  • I have updated my answer with the step to install nvidia drivers in Ubuntu way. Kindly do that as well. Apr 27, 2013 at 16:35
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    Sorry for replying so late. I installed ubuntu 13.04, so problems gone. Thank you for your reply!
    – dehiker
    May 6, 2013 at 14:07
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    What version of Ubuntu is that screenshot from? When I run sudo software-properties-gtk on my Ubuntu 12.04.x box, the screen does not have a tab labeled 'Additional Drivers'. Nov 2, 2013 at 17:46
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i suggest running this command to uninstall the driver and installing it via apt
sudo nvidia-installer --uninstall
To install the driver with apt run sudo apt-get install nvidia-310 (you may need to use nvidia-current or nvidia-310-updates package, I don't recall which name 12.04 uses for the nvidia 310 driver)
You may want to add the xswat ppa to get newer drivers
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

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  • Sorry for being so late. I got my problems fixed with installing 13.04 after several days off. I will try your advice if problem occurred again in future. Thank you, GM-Script-Writer-62850!
    – dehiker
    May 6, 2013 at 14:10

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