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Install Nvidia driver instead of nouveau

I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 and I'm experiencing a fuzzy/blurry screen and bad support for multiple screens. I realized that Ubuntu installs nouveau as default, but I need to install nvidia drivers, ...
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Blank screen after resume - Dell M5510 Ubuntu 16.04

Unable to Resume from Suspend Laptop is the Dell M5510 Precision Suspend/Resume works under Windows 10 and the Ubuntu Live CD/USB image. It even worked the first couple days installed. Then (...
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blank screen after Nvidia install

I installed Nvidia driver on fresh install of ubuntu Now after reboot all i get is a blank screen. With nothing on it. Cant even get to the terminal. Prior to install i stopped lightdm service. Please ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 - How to disable Nvidia driver from GRUB?

I am having an interesting issue. I upgraded my graphics cards and now the NVidia driver does not recognize it. As a result, when I attempt to boot into Ubuntu, I get spammed with an error stating ...
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How to install sane graphics drivers for Nvidia Optimus hardware on *Ubuntu 16.04?

Can we (please) build a community summary of how to install sane graphics drivers for Nvidia Optimus hardware on *Ubuntu 16.04? I can see this becoming a recurring thing every few years. Ubuntu 16....
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Black screen after installing CUDA 8.0rc from NVIDIA and unable to enter tty

I'm unable to enter tty to use sudo service lightdm start, as the normal boot will not even get me able to press ctrl+alt+f1 to f6. How do I fix this?
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Ubuntu 16.04 + Nvidia Driver + Encrypted harddrive = Blank screen

Steps: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa Install the nvidia via the "Additional Drivers" Reboot After rebooting, getting a blank screen. Ubuntu 16.04 + Nvidia Driver = Blank screen ...
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NVidia blank screen with cursor

[Note: I know there are many questions on nvidia and blank screen, but none so far have brought me closer to a solution, I've tried a lot, see below] Problem: Running Xubuntu 18.10 on a Dell XPS 9570 ...
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Ubuntu 16.10/17.04 + Kaby Lake (7700K) + NVIDIA drivers = black screen

Posting here hoping someone knows how to fix this... We use a lot of Ubuntu + NVIDIA in our shop, and while usually the procedures outlined in other answers work (such as this great answer) for the ...
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Kubuntu boots to blank screen with Nvidia drivers

System in question is running Kubuntu 16.04.3 LTS. I installed the latest Nvidia drivers a few weeks ago after installing a GTX 1050. This system worked for a bit. It booted fine, games ran great. ...
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Nividia drivers, black screen after grub

Ubuntu 16.04, fresh install today. I've tried switching to each of the nvidia drivers listed under "Additional Drivers", 367.57, 304.132, 340.98, and also tried the instructions here with adding the ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 only works when secondary monitor is connected

I have Ubuntu 16.04 on a Gigabyte Aero 14 laptop having Geforce GTX 1060 VGA. Using different nvidia drivers results in different behavior. For example, "nvidia-384" and "nvidia-387" don't detect the ...
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Black screen after upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04

I have recently upgraded my workstation from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04. After the upgrade, my computer is booting to black screen. The problem seem to be due to NVIDIA graphics card and its broken driver ...
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Cannot get nvidia drivers working on 16.04

I had a perfectly working installation of Ubuntu 16.04 with a GTX-650Ti. It's been working for months...maybe a year. Unfortunately, I don't remember which drivers I installed because it was so long ...
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ubuntu 16.04: When I change the video card driver from `nouveau` to `nvidia`, the top menu bar can't be displsyed?

When I change my video card server to the Nvidia dirver, then when I log out, when I log in again, it turned back. Later, I changed the driver to Nouveau. When I reboot, the screen is a blank screen, ...
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