#INSTALL GRAPHICS DRIVER UBUNTU 14.04 INSTALL#
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sudo lshw -businfo -class bridge -class display Bus info Device Class Description = bridge Core Processor DRAM Controller bridge Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port display GT216M display Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller bridge 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 Run the lshw command with these options and look for your display cards PCI-E ID. From here you can purge nvidia and try another method.

This safeguard will grant you shell access remotely, you can work on your machine while it sits in the stale black screen state if need be. Now, look for an address in the 192.168.0.0/16 CIDR.

#INSTALL GRAPHICS DRIVER UBUNTU 14.04 INSTALL#

(Dont know your local address?) sudo apt-get install net-tools sudo ifconfig Discover your local address, and ssh as your username into that address. Once you have done so, lets enable ssh access: sudo apt-get install openssh-client openssh-serverĬool, test this out with another machine, or an app on your phone (iPhone/Android). Ok, first things first, we will add the safeguard.Ĭonnect your machine to the Internet via an Ethernet cable, we don't want to rely on the wireless drivers, or cards for this. This method should (famous last words) work for any newer *buntu distribution with an EFI boot. If you are at the black screen right now, and cannot access recovery mode, then you know what you have to do… (Nuke your machine, unless you have ssh access configured, then keep going.)

I am adding to the method developed by an user named Andreas, who posted the solution that ended my 40 days and 40 nights in the GRUB desert. I wont provide any low-level technical explanations because I know you just want the driver. In this tutorial I am going to introduce a method to configure your hardware, install the proprietary driver, along with a fail safe directive to ensure you can escape the clutches “nvidia-error” black hole.

#INSTALL GRAPHICS DRIVER UBUNTU 14.04 DRIVERS#

My issue was that of a) stated above, I installed the driver, rebooted my machine, and stared at the blank screen for minutes before realizing nothing was going to happen, I could not access recovery mode, and if I could, the kernel loaded improper drivers and I was back at the black screen (of death). Thankfully there is a solution, it only took me 2 weeks of re-installing multiple distributions to realize the problem was actually with my machine, and not my Linux distro. I read about so many users (such as myself) giving up, and reinstalling their respective distribution of choice simply because they cant access a teletypewriter terminal (Ctrl+Alt-) or recovery mode from the dead stare the screen is now giving them. There are so many horror stories across stack exchange and miscellaneous *nix forums about users loading the latest NVIDIA driver, rebooting and unenthusiastically staring at either:Ī) A black/blank screen b) A flashing “-” tick in the top left corner (probably mocking you) c) A never ending loop of the splash screen

Install graphics driver ubuntu 14.04