Wednesday, August 8, 2018

nvidia - Why A Mismatch Between ubuntu-drivers list and Additional Drivers List?

I am on Ubuntu 16.04 and have both an Intel GPU and Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M graphics card. Unfortunately Ubuntu is not recognizing my Nvidia card so I'm trying to figure out the proper resolution.



Following is the command and output I get when trying to identify what drivers are installed on my system:



sudo ubuntu-drivers list
nvidia-364

nvidia-367
intel-microcode
nvidia-340
nvidia-370
nvidia-358
nvidia-361


When I access the Additional Drivers tab of Software and Updates, the driver that is apparently selected for my nvidia card is "Using X.Org X Server -- Nouveau display driver"




My question: Why does the ubuntu-drivers command correctly identify all drivers that show up in the Additional Drivers tab except for the X.Org Server entry? Why the mismatch?

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