Nvidia driver help in Ubuntu 13.10

[Me1z]

I apologize in advance if I'm missing something obvious, but I am quite new to linux and from what I've seen Nvidia is making things much more difficult. I am trying to install a GTX 750ti in Ubuntu 13.10 and it has been far from cooperative. The first time I tried to install Ubuntu it crashed spamming the screen with errors about nouveu, which through some digging I've found is the generic drivers for gpus. The only fix I found was to enable the 'nomodeset' option before starting the installer, not that I even know what that does. This allows me to successfully install Ubuntu for the most part. The real fun is when I try to do something about installing the nvidia proprietary drivers. Despite what I've read online, the software and update thing says there are no proprietary drivers and when I try following online guides and using the terminal all I'm left with is a black screen and a cursor. If I switch to the integrated video the cursor is an X instead of the normal arrow afterwards. Does anyone have a potential fix for this? It doesn't have to be easy, but if I need to use terminal all I ask is that you be very specific.

[orangecat]

Dude your running Linux what driver support did you expect?

[Me1z]

Dude your running Linux what driver support did you expect?

 

I'm not running Linux because it was my first choice. I need support for 6 gpus which is impossible on windows without the fabled "modified drivers" that seem to be nothing but vaporware. Linux, due to its open source nature has no limits and can take as many graphics cards as you can cram into a single system, provided you can make the drivers cooperate. As to what support I expected? I knew it was going to be a pain, but this is beyond what my noobish linux understanding and google can handle. Which is why I'm here today asking the LTT Linux gurus for their guidance.

[MatheusSanzo]

Back when i used ubuntu i just typed apt-get install nvidia-current and that was it...

[joshuamurphy]

I installed non-free drivers just last week via the additional drivers with the system settings. Honestly when I have screw ups like this (I've done this a few times) I just reinstalled Ubuntu (12.04 LTS) and just used my intel cpu. Then last week I tried giving it a try again I just went into system settings then additional drivers then installed the non-free one and then opened steam. Steam gave me an error and I googled it. The results came up with this and it worked and I saved it in Gdrive:

This seem to happen on every 64bits OS. Full bug report here:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/321

Solution:

sudo gedit /etc/ld.so.conf.d/steam.conf

Add next two lines to file:

/usr/lib32
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa

Then execute:

sudo ldconfig

Now you should be able to run Steam

So yeah I tried that and my gpu worked for the first time in about 6 months so that's how I did it.