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A few days ago I replaced my Windows by Ubuntu 14 (I have a Dell M15X). After that I notice some random problems with my video card (this was my general impression). Then I installed the latest version of the Nvidia card using:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings

After doing that I restarted my computer and I ran:

sudo lshw -c video

and I got what seems exactly the same configuration:

  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GT216M [GeForce GT 240M]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: a2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0

The only difference from the previous one seems to be

driver=nvidia

The previous one was

driver=nouveau

The general problem is that the original card video was GeForce GT 240M and there is no one exactly compatible available in Ubuntu?!

How does it work? Since I installed Ubuntu only few days ago, was it supposed to install this last version? Or not?

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    The nouveau driver is shipped with Ubuntu, and is non-proprietary. That is, Ubuntu manages updating it. Installing the nvidia drivers likely fixed your problem, as those are written and maintained by Nvidia. Jan 14, 2015 at 20:08
  • @DanielTheRocketMan Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10?
    – user364819
    Jan 14, 2015 at 20:17
  • 14.04! I guess you are right. The latest version now is 14.10. I dont know what happened that I used a previous version!? Jan 14, 2015 at 20:25

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Don't do anything!

You installed the Nvidia proprietary drivers and if you read the xorg-edgers PPA warning again you'll notice that they did warn you that you will receive these.

Currently (January 2015), the Nouveau Open Software drivers currently have some problems on some cards which means that (for the moment) you shouldn't mistake "nouveau" for "better"...

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    – Fabby
    Jan 15, 2015 at 11:40

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