Upgrading to 14.04 gives problems II

[MR ZenWiz]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:09 AM, J.L. Blom <joep at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> On 15/09/14 01:00, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>
:
>> I had some problems with the 304 driver after upgrading to 14.04.1.
>> Someone suggested I look up my nVidia card at their site and see what
>> the latest driver for it was.  It turns out that nVidia had released a
>> newer driver for my card, and I have had almost no troubles with it
>> since upgrading.
>>
>> Here is the site where I found what I needed, including step-by-step
>> instructions that worked for me:
>> http://www.binarytides.com/install-nvidia-drivers-ubuntu-14-04/
>>
>> HTH,
>> MR
>>
>
>
> MR,
> Thanks for your suggestion. However, looking at the additional drivers the
> menu says:
> No proprietary drivers are is in use, but 304.123 is indicated (in the list)
> and when I start ¨NVIDIA X Server Settings¨ it says the runnung server is
> 304.123 so I think the additional drivers tag has a bug as it also won´t
> load the driver 340.32 although it correctly is signalled in the list but
> when I select it and press apply it starts (something) and then stops. I can
> then cancel it and no problems arise.

That is unfortunate.  I routinely use Synaptic for these things since
it seems to handle most installs and removes better than some of the
underlying software (not always, but often enough for me).

I've yet to try the Additional Drivers app - AFAICT I haven't needed it.

I did install the 340.32 driver via Synaptic and it works quite nicely.

Best of luck.
MR