Install nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 14.10

[Thermite]

I just installed Ubuntu on my machiene, and I need to install the drives for my graphics card. I have a GTX 660ti from asus. I've had a lot of trouble in the past when installing graphics drivers, it usually ends up with me not being able to boot due to the gui not being able to load. This is probably simple, but I don't want to mess it up as installing this was very hard with my setup. (I have three SSD's in raid 0) B)

[elkenrod]

- download the drivers from nvidia's website

- ctrl alt f1

- enter login/password

- sudo service lightdm stop

- cd Downloads

- sudo chmod +x NVIDIA..<just tab>...............   .run

- sudo ./NVIDIA....<just tab>..................... .run

 

The driver should start installing

[Thermite]

- download the drivers from nvidia's website

- ctrl alt f1

- enter login/password

- sudo service lightdm stop

- cd Downloads

- sudo chmod +x NVIDIA..<just tab>...............   .run

- sudo ./NVIDIA....<just tab>..................... .run

 

The driver should start installing

thanks man

[Thermite]

- download the drivers from nvidia's website

- ctrl alt f1

- enter login/password

- sudo service lightdm stop

- cd Downloads

- sudo chmod +x NVIDIA..<just tab>...............   .run

- sudo ./NVIDIA....<just tab>..................... .run

 

The driver should start installing

hey I tried this and It kinda worked, I'll explain...

 

Nvidia provides us basically an "executable" file that can install the drives. This started up, but had problems actually completing, and once I completed the failed installation and rebooted the graphics card wasn't able to detect my second monitor nor was it able to run my first monitor at a good resolution.

 

So I looked up the error I found from my installation using this method and found this article "http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2081649&page=2".it gave me another way to install the nvidia drivers. This way seems a lot simpler, but I suspect it won't work for all distributions of linux. I'm running Ubuntu 14.10 (Unicorn something).

 

These were the commands that I followed:

 

sudo apt-get install linux-source

and headers 

 

Code:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

3) Uninstall nvidia driver - this depends on which version you tried to install from additional drivers :

 

Code:

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-current

Code:

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-current-updates

Code:

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-experimental-304

4) NOTE: You can install "nvidia-current" "nvidia-current-updates" or "nvidia-experimental-304" 

 

Code:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates

Don't forget to do before you shut down/restart your computer

Code:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

5) 

 

Code:

sudo shutdown -r now

That should get the nvidia drivers of your choice working.

 

I hope that this helps anyone else having problems setting up their drivers, and I appreciate @elkenrod for helping me set this up.

[patrickjp93]

Hey, I actually installed my Ubuntu 14.10 on a single HDD because I couldn't get the install to work when they were raided together. Is there a way to move the whole system over to a RAID volume so I can get the performance boost of RAID 0?