Many a times users mess up their system while installing graphic
card's driver. In this howto, I am going to tell you 3 different ways
to install your Nvidia/ATI graphic card's driver in Ubuntu.
In order to know the type of graphic card you have run this command in terminal (Applications->Accessories->terminal).
[shredder12]$ lspci | grep
For more detailed information use this command.
[shredder12]$ sudo lshw -C video
Using Ubuntu Hardware drivers installer utility
This is the Ubuntu recommended way of installing
Graphic card drivers. The built in Ubuntu hardware drivers manager is
available at System->Administration->Hardware Drivers. The
graphics drivers that are installed by this utility are Ubuntu provided
binary packages. They are the slightly modified to suit your system
although Ubuntu won't take any responsibility(since its a restricted
driver).
Click it, you will be asked for password, enter it and you will see a windows similar to this.
Select the driver you are interested in installing and click
activate. As the windows says, the one recommended will be a good
option. It will now open a small window which will show the download
progress bar. It will then download the driver automatically and
install it. Please note that
since the recommended
one is already installed in my system it is shown in green. You should
deactivate it first before installing another driver.
Many a times it just freezes either in the middle of downloading or before. It
won't be a good idea to kill the process or logout or reboot when it
freezes after some downloading. But if such a thing happens after
switching on your system again open a terminal
Application->Accessories->terminal and type
[shredder12]$ sudo dpkg –configure -a
This will fix the issue if the package was downloaded but
not installed and will install the graphic card drivers. If this
doesn't happen then try the installation procedure again or you may
even try method two.
Using envy-ng to install graphic card drivers
Here
is a howto to install graphic card drivers using EnvyNG in Ubuntu. Even
though I haven't heard any complains against this method of
installation but Ubuntu doesn't recommend this. .
Manually downloading the driver from the native card website and installing it
This is the third method ( in priority too). This method is used in the following scenarios.
- When the above 2 methods fail.
- When there is not driver package(provided by Ubuntu) available for your graphic card.
- For fun ;).
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