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[ubuntu] [help] How to install nVidia drivers on 15' Retina MBP with Ubuntu 12.04 64bit?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I have used rEFIt to achieve triple-boot on my 15' Retina Macbook Pro. However, for now I cannot get the nVidia drivers to work under Ubuntu 12.04 x64. Every time after I installed the nVidia Driver, X won't restart, and give me an error of "No screens found". I have tried both drivers from nVidia's website and drivers from Proprietary Drivers in Ubuntu's System Settings. They do exhibit different behaviors, though. Drivers from nVidia's website will create a seemingly correct xorg.conf file. Drivers from Ubuntu's System Settings, however, gives me a xorg.conf with only the follow (Hardware)

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Submitted by xskl on 01/19/2013

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Hi,

I've been trying to get my graphic card working under ubuntu and opensuse but to no avail.

First, i tried through additional drivers, but after installation it keeps saying "this driver is activated but not currently in use". That is 3D-accelerated proprietary graphics driver for NVIDIA cards.

I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and installed the nvidia drivers from their website (304.60 Latest Long Lived Branch).

They are just not working.

I have installed newest Nvidia drivers (from their site with the .run file) on my laptop with Nvidia Geroce 420M.

After some time I decided to try out open source drivers there I went to System Settings -> Software Sources -> Additional drivers and clicked Open source drivers and applied the changes.

After a reboot I have had no Unity panel shown when I logged into the system.

This is my first time using Ubuntu 12.04 and needless to say, I am quite lost. My laptop uses Optimus in windows, but In ubuntu I am assuming it opts for my GT 540m. My questions is how do I install proprietary drivers and is it necessary for them. Everything seems to be working, but in the system details it says "unkown" for my graphics.

Hi!

I keep getting the same problem on two of my computers:

a) the regular nvidia-current drivers don't work very well with my card.

b) So I install either of these, which do work: At the moment I use the 295.53-0ubuntu1~precise~xup1 package from the ubuntu-x-swat ppa.

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Hey guys,

Im very new to the world of Ubuntu/backtrack, which I'm very eager to learn much more!

Ive been hindered by the installation of nvidia drivers. So far i have installed all of the nvidia drivers and the cpu toolkit, but im stuck at the famous no screen error at "startx" command.

xorg.conf :

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia

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© admin for Ubuntu Geek, 2012.

The latest nVidia Driver for Linux is available. Here I will show you how to install nVidia 256.35 display drivers in Ubuntu using PPA Repository.

When I install the recommended drivers, even the latest from their ppa, on reboot, xwindows won't start, it just boots to a console login.

If I purge nvidia and reboot, it works with the builtin ubuntu drivers, even 3D, but system reports the experience as 'standard' using driver Gallium 0.4 on NV92 .

I would like to get nvidia drivers working to see if it performs better.