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I'm using Ubuntu 12.10. My PC isn't auto detecting my drivers, I've tried installing the graphic drivers from the additional drivers section, but it shows nothing.

when I open up the "About this computer" tab, I see that my graphics driver is UNKNOWN and my experience is STANDARD. After referring to a lot of forums, I saw that I had to run this command, 

lspci | grep VGA

I see this output

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 630M] (rev a1)

I have tried downloading nvidia's graphic driver file, but it's a .run file and I don't know how to install it.

How do I fix this?

treppenwitz
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Did you try change the drivers via GUI mode? You can do it via Software Center. Press menu "Edit" > "Software sources" and then the tab "Additional Drivers". It should offer you a easy way to change or update drivers detected.

shakaran
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See the Nvidia instructions:

Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by running, as root, sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17.run


This should do the trick.

yaron160
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You have hybrid graphics card, Intel+nVidia. Intel for power saving and nVidia for performance. I solved the problem and answered it in here: in here

The process worked for my laptop and tested on Ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10

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