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Can't activate proprietary driver for NVIDIA from "Additional drivers" Ubuntu 14.04

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04,64 bit, with nvidia 610M dedicated graphics card.

By default when I go to "Softwares & Updates" > "Additional Drivers" it shows "Using X.Org X server-Nouveau display driver..." selected.

But I wanted to switch to proprietary nvidia driver so I selected "Using NVIDIA binary driver-version 331.38..." and clicked "Apply Changes" but shows a progress bar and after few seconds the "Nouveau" driver again shows selected.

I gave apt-get update from the terminal. Did a reboot after "Apply Changes" But still no luck.

It shows Nouveau driver ever after "Apply changes" and Reboot

nkg
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You can run this action from command line, using utility ubuntu-drivers. In this case you will get some helpful descriptions of error. To install the most appropriate version use ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

Barafu Albino
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Under "Ubuntu Software" in the Software & Updates page set the Download From to be "Main Server"

This then lets you install the drivers...

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You can then Install the Drivers for the Nvidia

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Volker Siegel
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Layke
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I had the same issue, and the

ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

gave me some errors so I had to revome all the nvidia libs with the following commands

 sudo apt remove cuda
 sudo apt remove "nvidia*"
 sudo apt autoremove

and then I did as @Barafu Albino suggested.

Polivicio
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