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I'm currently stuck at a problem that I can't solve by myself. Recently, my OBS (Open Broadcast Software) stopped working, so I've decided to test a little bit around to get it fixed.

I've done update, upgrade, dist-upgrade and -f install and did several updates, including linux header updates which seem now to make problems.

After a reboot I've only had 1 single desktop for use, and the max resolution was 800x600. Also, my nvidia X Server-Window hasn't any more the settings that were available before (only 2 options now, both useless).

I've purged all nvidia-packets an reinstalled nvidia-304 and nvidia-352 (I wasn't sure which one I need, since I have a GTX 780 - or 740, not sure right now). Both didn't worked.

So basically, in short, here's my problem:

  • having a GTX 7xx Graphic Card
  • Using Ubuntu 14.04
  • recently updated linux headers trough apt-get dist-upgrade
  • now having bugs with the graphic engine.

How can I fix this, and how can I get appropriate Drivers back to working?

Thank you very much.

Max
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First remove all currently installed NVIDIA software.
Select the Ubuntu menu entry and press the E key.
Add nouveau.modeset=0 at the end of the linux line.
Press the F10 key to boot into the Ubuntu system.

When the login screen appears press Ctrl+Alt+F1.
Enter your user name and password and then execute :

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*  
sudo reboot

Install the latest stable drivers for GTX 7 series cards.
Select the Ubuntu menu entry and press the E key.
Add nouveau.modeset=0 at the end of the linux line.
Press the F10 key to boot into the Ubuntu system.

When the login screen appears press Ctrl+Alt+F1.
Enter your user name and password and then execute :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-367
sudo reboot

Note : Set a Space between the last character in the linux line and nouveau.modeset=0.
After the NVIDIA drivers are installed adding the boot parameter is not necessary anymore.
When you want to install the latest official drivers, replace nvidia-367 with nvidia-370.

cl-netbox
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