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Helper to install and activate private drivers/modules. This tool has been superseded by ubuntu-drivers since 14.04.

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What has Jockey been replaced with in 14.04?

Just tried to run jockey-text on my test server and found that it's not installed. Looked for the jockey-common package and found nothing. Even did a package search and there's no release for Trusty. I feel like I've missed an important bit of news…
Oli
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ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics install fails, how can I resolve the problem?

I want to activate ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release update), but there is a problem during installation. It says: Sorry, installation of this driver failed. Please have a look at the log file for details:…
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FLGRX (AMD Catalyst) driver issues in Ubuntu 12.04

I just finished installing Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit on my laptop and I'm having a hard time getting my graphic card drivers to work. Jockey (the GUI for installing additional proprietary graphic drivers) always fails to successfully install either of the…
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How do you use ubuntu-drivers-common or software-properties in the command line to change graphics drivers?

Martin Pitt removed jockey-text in Ubuntu 14.04 (it's also broken in 13.10 apparently) but I used it for changing graphics drivers in the command line when X wasn't working. How do I do this now (he refers to the two packages in the title)?
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Cannot install Nvidia drivers

I have 12.04 running on Intel dual core with Nvidia 8400 GS. I had installed the post-relase updates for Nvidia, but encountered some problems, so removed [deactivated] them through "Aditional drivers". After restarting, when I went to install the…
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I installed jockey-gtk but how do I run it?

zuber@zuber-pc:~$ sudo apt-get install jockey-gtk Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: nvidia-common…
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Additional drivers for my NVIDIA 680GTX not showing up in the additional drivers tool

Did a fresh 13.04 install "Additional drivers" doesnt show anything at all. Was working fine on Ubuntu 12.04. I have 2 nvidia cards installed 680GTX and 460GTX both detected on lspci, currently my system looks like its running on the Nouveau driver…
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Laggy Windows, and cant install Post Release update driver

When I move my windows around they are really laggy. I had a feeling it's because Ubuntu isn't taking full advantage of my graphics card so i went to install the additional drivers. The normal proprietery one does nothing to help the window issue…
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ATI proprietary driver (post release) install fails. How can I fix it?

Possible Duplicate: ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics install fails, how can I resolve the problem? If ATI post release driver is selected, install fails. How can I fix it? And I don't mean compiling and installing myself the ATI driver from…
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Jockey not detecting my ATI IGP Xpress 1150

Will get to the point, Fresh Ubuntu 11.04, I tried to edit the appearance settings for Gnome Do 0.8.4, get the error "you must enable compositing" help guides suggested to install Compiz. Installed compiz fine, but none of the visual effects work…
Mitchell Lindsay
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Update manager updates the kernel mod but not the nvidia client, how to get them to match?

12.04 update on 2012-12-22 updated the kernel to 3.2.0-35-generic and attempted to update nvidia driver to nvidia-experimental-310 310.14-0ubuntu0.1 but did not. Update on 2013-01-06 update manager updated the kernel module to…
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What is the program "Additional Drivers" (jockey-gtk) talking me about?

The program says: "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system" But it doesn't say if it is talking about graphical drivers only or what. Then, it lists two drivers: NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173). NVIDIA accelerated graphics…
Robert Vila
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How do I choose which of the offered nvidia drivers is best?

Possible Duplicate: which nvidia driver from additional drivers option should i choose …? These are the options presented by Jockey: NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173) NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release…
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How to disable the notification for additional driver

We have chosen to use the Nouveau driver for our PCs with nVidia graphic cards. Unfortunately every user who gets connected to those PCs get the message "Additional drivers available" ... even if they don't have the right to install it. How could I…
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Is there a fix for Jockey failing to download package indexes?

I'm running the latest version of the proprietary nVidia driver, and I haven't had any problems enabling Compiz effects until a few days ago after tweaking my theming. When I try to enable effects from the Appearance panel, I get this popup…
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