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I have been having some issues installing Nvidia graphics drivers, I have tried many different things including things I've seen in other stack questions.

I tried:

  • Installing manually using the .run from their website, following a gist
  • Using the ppa's found here

Things that I have ended up doing:

  • Blacklisted nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
  • Ended up removing nouveau per suggestion found somewhere else to no change

Where I'm at:

  • Black screen
  • Occasionally stuck at a white 'e' (elementary icon)
  • /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log final lines are giving

[+0.00s] DEBUG: Seat: Failed to find session configuration default [+0.00s] DEBUG: Seat: Failed to create greeter session

Any help would be helpful, thanks!

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  • Possible duplicate of How to reset graphic drivers from command line
    – Ravan
    Jan 11, 2016 at 2:21
  • Very similar, however, I have done all of that and am currently running 352 as suggest for my card (GTX 750)
    – Samuel
    Jan 11, 2016 at 4:02
  • If you couldn't successfully install and use the NVidia drivers NEVER remove nouveau. I suggest reinstalling nouveau.
    – Eduardo Cola
    Jan 11, 2016 at 13:13
  • What would be the point of going back to nouveau? Giving up on the nvidia drivers? EDIT: my linux background is 100% server, never had a gui in my life, new to using the graphics drivers on linux
    – Samuel
    Jan 11, 2016 at 19:27
  • I'd install that noveau driver again and also synaptic. Then open synaptic and just check nvidia-352 and it'll do everything by itself
    – Maccer
    Jun 17, 2016 at 19:15

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You need to install the nvidia-352 package and you need to disable nouveau (open source driver for Nvidia graphics) in GRUB.

  1. Press CTRL + Alt + F1 and log in by entering a username and password. CAUTION: this will deactivate elementary OS's graphical interface, leaving you with a command line, so read this entire set of instructions first.

  2. Execute following commands

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-352
sudo reboot

  3. The computer will restart. When you get to the GRUB loader screen, select elementary OS and press the E key to edit that boot command.

  4. Add nouveau.modeset=0 to the end of the linux line.
  5. Press F10 to save and boot.
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    I did these steps and now I have a blinking cursor when I boot. Is this graphics?
    – Michael Fulton
    May 11, 2018 at 21:41
  • Press CTRL + Alt + F1 and log in by entering a username and password, then enter command nvidia-xconfig
    – Laxmikant Mokadam
    Oct 29, 2018 at 2:42
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    Right, that's the first step. On the second step it requires a reboot. After reboot, I had only a blinking cursor and Ctrl alt f1, along with everything else, did nothing. It's like the operating system, Grub and everything else was gone. I just installed Windows at that point.
    – Michael Fulton
    Oct 29, 2018 at 2:45
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You can install the additional hardware tool that ships by default in Ubuntu, and this will configure your system with the latest versions of the drivers you need at the click of a button.

See: Loki, additional hardware

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In Elementary OS 4.1, there is a AppCenter app.

In the AppCenter, there is a "Nvidia X Server Settings" app. Install that and reboot.

After rebooting, there will be a driver update in the AppCenter for "nvidia-375". At time of writing, nvidia-375 is the latest long term driver. Install nvidia-375 and reboot. The computer will be using the proprietary Nvidia driver now.

Prior to this, you could see that the nouveau driver was being used via terminal: lshw -c video | grep 'configuration' which shows driver=nouveau latency=0. After updating, it will show driver=nvidia latency=0

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    rebooting was the key for me! thanks
    – Sayan
    Dec 11, 2019 at 15:47

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