Friday, March 11, 2016

Remove/Add nvidia drivers ubuntu 14.04.2

I'm following Ubuntu Wiki to install the drivers for hybrid-graphics in Ubuntu 14.04.2.



Here are the steps:



NVIDIA systems:





  1. Make sure that no other NVIDIA driver is installed (keep the
    nvidia-common package).

  2. Install nvidia-331.

  3. Reboot the system (restarting X won't be enough).



    NOTE: you can easily switch between GPUs from the Prime section of the nvidia-settings panel.




I'm not sure about step 1 - is it ok to just go to Additional Drivers and select nvidia-331 , will this uninstall other nvidia drivers if I have any ? And I guess this should install the driver (step 2) , or I have to do something explicitly like install from command line ?

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