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I am setting up an EC2 GPU instance for experimenting with CUDA programming using an Ubuntu 14.04 AMI. I installed the nvidia drivers indicated by the major version on the Nvidia download page for the Grid K520 (340) from the xorg-edgers PPA.

ubuntu-drivers devices shows that this is the recommended version. However, lspci -vnn | grep -i VGA -A 12 has no "Kernel driver in use" section. Articles I've looked at suggest using the GUI to select the driver, but as I'm ssh'ing into a headless box there's no GUI.

I am trying doing X forwarding to my local box, but I can't figure out how to start the software properties dialog from the command line. Just selecting the driver from the command line (a la jockey-text) would be the best, though.

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OK, after installing a bunch of X stuff (apt-get install xubuntu-desktop xfce4 -y), I was able to run software-properties-gtk and foward it over the X connection. It showed that the proprietary driver actually was already in use.

If anyone knows an easier way to tell which driver is in use, I'd appreciate that.

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