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Just bought a Geforce GTX 660 and replaced my Radeon HD 5870 (it finally died after 3 years). I'm having terrible problems getting the video card to work. As I only had command line options so far I've ran: (purged fglrx*)

then

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nvidia-331

and then I started getting low graphics mode errors. did some searching on my tablet, and I tried several things but what finally worked better was:

sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia

However now that I'm logged into my computer finally, I have no access to terminal, no access to the top bar, and hitting Super Key does nothing, alt-f2 does nothing, and I only can post because I tried running WoW and it had an error and the error report opened a link.

All I can see on my desktop is my wallpaper and desktop icons. I can CTRL+ALT+F1, and navigate to the downloaded official nvidia driver, however that won't run because of x-server, and I can't run it from my desktop.

Can anyone help me?

Braiam
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Michaeljwjr
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Executing sudo apt-get install nvidia-current should make it.

Please note that the nvidia-current package is located in the restricted repository. If the package is not found. Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file, and remove the leading # character, of the following line

#deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy main restricted

Save the file and execute sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nvidia-current.

It should work

Peter Parker
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Downloaded the official nvidia driver, then CTRL+ALT+F1. Logged in, then went to the Downloads directory and typed:

sudo service lightdm stop
sudo chmod a+x NVIDIA-*.run
sudo ./NVIDIA*.run
sudo reboot

as per: http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-the-Latest-NVIDIA-331-20-Drivers-in-Ubuntu-13-10-399182.shtml

Braiam
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