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[SOLVED] You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver on Linux Ubuntu

After a regular upgrade on Linux Ubuntu Lucid 9.10, I was greeted with the following message:

You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.

I tried many forums to return this to normal. They seemed all too complicated and didn't solve the problem, more importantly.

Finally, I solved it by running a combination of commands from two different forums:

To use NVIDIA-provided driver, you will need to remove Nouveau first. You can remove it from a command-line by entering this:
sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
(from this ubuntu forum)

1) Make sure that the kernel headers for your kernel are installed
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
2) Install the nvidia driver:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current (or nvidia-173 or nvidia-96,
depending on your card)
3) Select the driver that you wish to use (you can install all of the
nvidia drivers but use only at the time):
sudo update-alternatives --config gl_conf
sudo ldconfig
sudo update-initramfs -u
4) Configure your xorg.conf
sudo nvidia-xconfig
5) Restart your computer (restarting only the xserver might not work)

(from this launchpad forum)

Hope this helps

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#1Submitted by Nobody (not verified) on 19 January, 2012 - 03:18.

Thanks a lot! You saved my

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Thanks a lot! You saved my life!

#2Submitted by dan man (not verified) on 26 October, 2011 - 00:20.

HELP?!?!?!!?!?

This did not work for me.  I switched from Ubuntu to Mint11 because I was having the same problem there.  Everytime I install the nvidia drivers and try to restart my comp linux never finishes booting up.  Or at least the x server doesn't.  It stops at checking battery and never finishes loading.  I can jump to the other windows via ctrl alt F1-6 but the gui never finishes loading.  Can someone please help me?

#3Submitted by ck (not verified) on 15 January, 2012 - 12:53.

I have the exact same

I have the exact same problem. Did you find a solution for that?

#4Submitted by AM (not verified) on 30 August, 2011 - 21:41.

Thanks !!

Thanks for the help :):)!!!! Great Effort  

#5Submitted by Somebody1 (not verified) on 30 August, 2011 - 19:34.

Thanks. (Works for Linux Mint

Thanks. (Works for Linux Mint 10 KDE "julia".)

#6Submitted by Somebody (not verified) on 9 August, 2011 - 11:48.

Thank you very much pal, it

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Thank you very much pal, it works like a charm

#7Submitted by SlickRed (not verified) on 6 July, 2011 - 15:17.

Thanks!

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Thankyou!

 

I followed the steps laid out here and it fixed the problem perfectly.

 

I still had an issue with overscan. For anyone who runs into this problem (if you are using a HDTV as a monitor) go to System > Preferences > NVidia X Server Settings. Under GPU 0 there should be an option that says DFP-1 or something like that. Its just above nvidia-settings configuration. When you click on this there should be an option for overscan, which you can adjust to get your screen to fit properly.

 

Again, thankyou very much for the solution!

 

SlickRed

#8Submitted by Somebody (not verified) on 2 July, 2011 - 18:47.

Thank you very much! Other

Thank you very much! Other approaches failed but the solution you provided works for me on Ubuntu 10.10.

#9Submitted by Loic (not verified) on 2 July, 2011 - 13:18.

Thanks you so much

It helped me a lot, thank you !

#10Submitted by Halibutt (not verified) on 17 June, 2011 - 21:57.

Sadly, this didn't help to

Sadly, this didn't help to solve my problem in Natty (11.4), but there surely is more than one way to skin a cat :) Thanks anyway.

#11Submitted by 王浩 (not verified) on 16 June, 2011 - 06:41.

谢谢你了，解决了我的问题。

谢谢你了，解决了我的问题。

#12Submitted by younes (not verified) on 26 May, 2011 - 20:20.

thanks a lot solved the

thanks a lot solved the problem
#13Submitted by nacho32 (not verified) on 28 March, 2011 - 20:35.

this failed for me the

this failed for me the problem seems to be in the 32 bit linux OS tested on linux mint 10 and Ubuntu 10.10 and a conflict if you have a Hauppage TV card, ounce the card is removed the driver was non broken, It was a way to where the boot would allocate memory, since the 64 bit allocates different it fix the problem going to a 64 bit Linux
#14Submitted by Decadence (not verified) on 13 February, 2011 - 13:49.

You are a genius, thanks a

You are a genius, thanks a lot. Maybe you could help me with something else: I'm currently running the 10.4 version since the 10.10 gave me a little bit of a headache, but i seem to be running into the same problem: I usually have great speed like 40.2 Mb/s for download and while i still had windows i had those very speeds on torrents and such....since i let go of windows i have currently just ubuntu and really crappy speeds such as 60kb/s While reading a hell of a lot of forums the only suggestion was disabling ipv6 i did that: On firefox it worked it improved it but for the whole system it didn't the same crappy speeds and it's not because of the torrent or the bitorrent i'm using i also tried deluge ...same thing while my speed tests show my 40Mb speed I checked everything ...haven't got a clue I'd really appreciate your help.
#15Submitted by nism0o (not verified) on 30 October, 2010 - 14:27.

Does this work in 10.10 ? And

Does this work in 10.10 ? And how to: 4) Configure your xorg.conf sudo nvidia-xconfig
#16Submitted by Viktor Mastoridis on 30 October, 2010 - 17:52.

Does this work in 10.10 ? -

Does this work in 10.10 ?
- Yes, this works in 10.10 as far as I am aware.

And how to: 4) Configure your xorg.conf sudo nvidia-xconfig
-Just run sudo nvidia-xconfig in the terminal, this is more like an 'update' command really

#17Submitted by Kaerax (not verified) on 13 January, 2012 - 06:11.

Did not work for me with an optimus card

When I tried this I got a blank screen when I tried to start Ubuntu. My card was an Nvidia 4200m with optimus. Short story I had to disable optimus from the bios and reinstall the nvidia driver. Long story is here if you want to read it.