(I'm new here so excuse any awkwardness)
I've been running Ubuntu Gnome for close to a year now and never encountered any issues. However, I recently upgraded the hardware on my desktop pc. Before I had a gtx EVGA 650 and now I am running a PNY GTX 960. I'm not sure if anyone else has encountered driver issues with this card, but I am having the hardest time.
I use two monitors, a Dell 24-inch via HDMI with mostly no problems, however, my Hanns-G 16 inch monitor (16:10 resolution - 1440x900, DVI-I) has now started having issues. It is locked at 800 x 600 and even when playing around with several different nvidia drivers, I only ever got it up to a slightly higher resolution. I have tried everything including xrandr forcing a custom resolution but with no luck. (This is a single card solution, no SLI)
I have Ubuntu on an SSD and Windows on a hhd. Over on Windows I am having no resolution problems with my monitors.
Has anyone else had problems with drivers for gtx 960 on Ubuntu? And if so, how did you resolve them.
(If you need any more information I will gladly provide it, thank you so much for the support, I thought since there are a lot of linux users in this community it would be a good place to ask)
Did you update your drivers?
I used both sudo apt-get update and upgrade. I switched to this driver using additional drivers and then selected the tested nvidia driver. I at one point tried to install nvidia-current, but this actually caused massive graphical glitching to the point I had to purge all of my nvidia drivers and try again.
Have you tried:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings
I have indeed. This is actually what I was referring to, after installing nvidia-current whenever I booted up Ubuntu the screen would glitch with occasionally flashes of code, but never let me log in. I had to use control + alt + f1 and purge the nvidia drivers. I have no idea why that happened.
You could try reinstalling Ubuntu from scratch. Despite purging the driver you may very well have files left behind that are conflicting with the driver.
Haha, believe it or not, I actually have already done this step. It didn't seem to change anything, however, I have not tired to install nvidia current again since I reinstalled it, should I try that again?
Just out of curiosity did you do dist-upgrade or upgrade? Try both and then install the driver.
I have not, to be honest I have never used either of those commands before. Any clarification on what they do for future reference?
'apt-get upgrade' installs the latest packages however does not resolve dependencies where as 'apt-get dist-upgrade' resolves all dependencies. Thus if you want things to just work go the route of dist-upgrade. Make sure you are root by running 'sudo su' before executing the commands.
I constantly use apt-get upgrade, I just was not familiar with dist-upgrade. I will try it out and then install nvidia-current. Thanks!
NP. I personally don't use Ubuntu however it didn't seem as if it would be rocket science to get it working. I do know @Kai uses Ubuntu so he may be able to help you more if things decide to crap out.
This is the first even minor problem I have ever experienced with it. I noticed when I added that repository that it added a few more drivers to the "additional drivers" section, so maybe I can find one that is more functional as well.
Yeah. Ubuntu is pretty conservative and goes their own way. Hence using duplicate packages for each program (which could be a good thing to prevent breakage), and waiting until last month to switch to systemd. I like their direction, and think it's awesome however never got into their whole one size fits all thing. Other than that I like it.
I just love the amount of support for Ubuntu since most people know it, never encounter anything that is too hard ot fix, plus Debian based things tend to be supported the most. I've tried out many linux distributions, but by far Ubuntu Gnome is my favorite...if not just for the all view with the home key, I love that feature of Gnome so much it bothers me when I go over to Windows.
Update on this: after doing everything you told me to do - this allowed me to go up to a 1360 x 768 resolution ... but not quite the full 1440 x 900. It's better, but not quite native. Not sure if there is anything I can do past this point. (I am using version 352.09 from nvidia-352)
It seems like an issue with the driver itself; not Ubuntu. I don't think it has full support for the 960 as it's a fairly new card.
Ah, alright, understood. This is bearable then until the driver is updated. Thanks for the help though, this is certainly a lot better than the resolution it was at (and I plan to get a new monitor eventually, my secondary monitor is rather old)
To improve image quality you could try down sampling. I'm not sure if that is a feature with the control center on Linux yet though.
Actually....... didn't wendell cover this issue?
Someone did a video on the 960. For what ever reason the 950ti and the 960 have issues with ubuntu and it's stupid driver tools.
Ubuntu CAN support the card, but you have to install the driver the "hard way / proper way" by downloading the driver and installing the driver from a terminal.
So ideally this is what you should be doing.
1: download the latest driver from nvidia for linux and save it to your home folder or any other folder that is easy for you to get to. Home just so happens to be really easy for most people.
2: reboot your system and in grub 2 go to advanced options. I think there is an option for something like rescue mode or something like that. It will essentially launch a terminal....and nothing else.
3: once in the terminal, you need to log in. First will be your user name, and then your password. That SHOULD put you in your home folder by default. If not, just cd to your home directory.
4: List out your home folder by typing ls . If you saved your driver to your home folder you should see some really long mess like nvidia.linux-x64 or some bull shit like that. It should end in a .sh and that is important.
5: type sudo (enter that really long bull shit name here).sh and it should launch a gui for installing the driver.
6: install the driver ; )
7: reboot.
If that does not work. Find a different distro. Lol.
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