Ubuntu Gnome GTX 960 Support

[Ty Young]

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Andrew Welch 
> <welchandrew559 at gmail.com <mailto:welchandrew559 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Ty Young <bluesoviet at outlook.com
>     <mailto:bluesoviet at outlook.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hello once again,
>
>         I'm going to be upgrading my graphics card from an GTX 750 TI
>         to the GTX 960 and was wondering what support Ubuntu Gnome
>         15.10 has for it and what steps I would need to take to ensure
>         that I don't run into any issues(black screen, for example).
>
>         If it matters at all, I currently have a small issue with my
>         install of Ubuntu Gnome where the only driver that will
>         work(Open Source or Nvidia's) is Nvidia's 361.28. I am also
>         using the 4.4.1 kernel.
>
>         Assuming the "recovery" boot option still works, getting to a
>         terminal to do the install for Nvidia's 361.28 driver isn't an
>         issue. Its just any quirks that might occur that I'm worried
>         about(like "recovery" boot option not working, if its even
>         possible for that to happen due to a new GPU).
>
>         Thanks for any information or help!
>
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>     Best bet would be to keep the second graphics card incase the
>     driver install doesn't want to work properly, but it looks like
>     it's been working since Nvidia's 346.35 driver in 14.04 with Unity
>     <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-geforce-gtx960&num=2>,
>     so you would think it would work with 15.10 and GNOME Shell.
>
>     Andrew Welch
>     welchandrew559 at gmail.com <mailto:welchandrew559 at gmail.com>
>

I hope your right.

The only reason I'm really concerned is because of the issues I've had 
with Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 on my GTX 750 TI. The Open Source graphics 
driver is unusable due to garbled text and signing in doesn't always 
work. The proprietary Nvidia driver has a bunch of minor issues as well 
such as Plymouth displaying in a low resolution or graphical glitches 
every time a game launches and goes fullscreen. Not the end of the 
world, but really annoying(the last one anyway, i have everything in 
xdiagnose enabled which apparently disabled Plymouth boot splash).



On 02/16/2016 09:42 PM, Jackson Doak wrote:
> I've been running a 970 on 15.10 and 16.04 for some time and it's 
> working great.
>

Nice! No problems on your end then?
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