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I have a problem that may sound already heard, but I can't find a proper driver for my Clevo laptop with a GTX970M, using Ubuntu 14.04 64bit uefi, here are the ways I tried:

  • Installed version 346.35 from xorg-edgers ppa, here is what I get: initially seems a normal boot, but after boot logo some coloured pixels appear on the screen then it becomes completely black. I can hear the login page welcome sound, and I can even log in (without seeing what happens underneath) but all I can do is switching to command line and uninstall drivers, then reboot and everything works on integrated graphics.

  • Installing official drivers (346.35) from Nvidia website manually (following the right procedure) leads to a normal boot, login window, I can type my password and log in, then it stuck on this: no desktop and all I can do is repeat the same procedure as the first point and rely upon integrated graphics again.

Luca Anastasio
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The answer is outdated, now the GTX9xx series works fine with the drivers in Ubuntu's repositories.

Anyway, if you want the latest drivers you could try this PPA instead: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Finally solved using this ppa instead of xorg-edger's one:

https://launchpad.net/~mamarley/+archive/ubuntu/nvidia

and installing:

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends nvidia-346 bumblebee-nvidia nvidia-prime nvidia-346-uvm

Luca Anastasio
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