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UPDATE: Since this question has got many views, I just want to add that from Ubuntu 13.04 onwards, proprietary drivers installed perfectly on my MacBook. Versions of Ubuntu prior to 13.04 will have problems

I recently upgraded to 12.10 and was just checking for proprietary drivers to be installed. I found this in software sources

Additional Drivers

When I enabled Nvidia binary Xorg driver, unity disappears along with the launcher and everything. I just have the wallpaper. I did manage to open the terminal and open software sources and select the nouveau display driver which fixed it.

Question is how to enable NVIDIA binary Xorg driver and have everything working?

Hardware: Apple MacBook Pro 9,1 Mid 2012 15 inch non-retina. NVIDIA GeForce GT650M

EDIT: I tried the solution here. And now, when I boot into Ubuntu, I get a blinking cursor. That's all! No tty1, nothing. help !!

EDIT 2: I inserted the Live USB and re installed Ubuntu without formatting the partition. At least, I didn't lose my files, but all softwares are gone. And the output of 

lspci -vnn | grep '\''[030[02]]'
is 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:0fd5] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

EDIT 3: So, I was checking the link which Shrinivas gave, namely this one http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-quetzal-nvidia.html and it doesn't work for me. Specifically, where he says to run the command modprobe nvidia_current, I get the output 

FATAL: Error inserting nvidia_current (/lib/modules/3.5.0-22-generic/updates/dkms/nvidia_current.ko): Operation not permitted

So, what's the problem? To reiterate, I'm using Ubuntu on an Apple MacBook Pro Mid 2012 15 inch non retina 8GB RAM with NVIDIA GeForce GT650M

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pratnala
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Same problem here with new kernel update to 3.5.0-21 You can run the terminal from a F##! up unity by keyboard shortcut ctrl+alt+t Then you can run the command software-center to launch the software center or google-chrome to launch the chrome internet browser (better than anything ^^) Install linux-headers-3.5.0-21-generic from software-center (I'm on x64) download the 310.19 version of the driver on Nvidia's website

Ctrl+F1

login with user + psw

cd Downloads (or whatever path you downloaded your nvidia####.run file)

sudo service lightdm stop

sudo sh nvidia.run (I renamed the nvidia install file to "nvidia.run" when downloading) I think I did say yes afterward to everything in the installation process

sudo reboot

Hope it helps

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Hadrien
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This is my output to your command in the terminal:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF106 [GeForce GTS 450] [10de:0dc4] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Actually it seems that nvidia drivers don't fit in ubuntu 12.10. I installed from PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings

This PPA will install all the missing packages (dkms fakeroot linux-source linux-headers-generic linux-headers 3.5.0-17-generic...). I did it yesterday after several attempts with the proprietary drivers and, for now, it works pretty well. If you do not find other solution, give this one a try. Bye!

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beppe
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Install the linux sources and headers. These are required to build the driver.

sudo apt-get install linux-source linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic

Then unistall any nvidia drivers you have installed.

sudo apt-get remove nvidia-current

Then reinstall the nvidia driver

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Then restart the computer

sudo shutdown -r now

It should now boot up using the nvidia drivers.

Trevor Hackett
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Downloading the Drivers directly from NVidia and building it worked for me.

Jason
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Please see this:

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-quetzal-nvidia.html

He gives a detailed explanation for installing proprietary nVidia drivers.

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shrinivas
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It seems sleep process is much more complicated in such cases..try hibernate against that.as I found it better option or alternative solution.

see this if you prefer to hibernate

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Amir Reza Adib
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NVIDIA drivers install without a fuss on MacBooks on Ubuntu 13.04 and above.

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