Saturday, November 4, 2017

Can't install nvidia drivers on a 2 card laptop for xubuntu 14.04


I just installed xubuntu 14.04 on an asus gl771j laptop.
It comes with an integrated intel video card and another nvidia 860m video card.
I open the additional drivers setting window and I get "no additional drivers available"
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I got as far as getting this information, but that's it


sudo lshw -c video
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: 3D controller
product: GM107M [GeForce GTX 860M]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f707ffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 06
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:53 memory:f7400000-f77fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)

How can I install the nvidia drivers?


Thanks in advance.



Ok,


First I thought maybe the problem was the Intel card driver. So I downloaded it from them, but then I saw that 14.04 was not a supported distro.


So I've installed 15.04 (even if I prefer LTS) and now I see this:
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I haven't restarted yet :P


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