Empty nvidia-settings after install v. 331.67 driver on Ubuntu 14.04?

Question

I've followed this tutorial (with the following adjustments below) to install v. 331.67 nVidia driver. But get nvidia-settings (NVIDIA X Server Settings) empty...

Then, before restart the PC, I make a xorg.conf in the nvidia-settings.

The driver make Unity don't start right. So I installed nvidia-331-updates via apt-get and restarted the PC again.

After that, the Unity works fine. But the nvidia-settings gets almost empty...

Can someone help !?

Solution

You installed the driver from ubuntu repositories over a driver you manually installed.

Follow that tutorial to uninstall that driver.

Then remove nvidia-updates with sudo apt-get purge nvidia-331-updates nvidia-settings.

Reinstall Nvidia current driver with sudo apt-get install nvidia-331 nvidia-settings

Comments

[Manatax]

Made it work? I have the same problem...

[Victoralm]

Unfortunately not...

[Manatax]

askubuntu.com/a/496116/189064

[Victoralm]

Is there any safe way to manually install (from the *.run) nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 14.04 without crashing Unity !?

[Cornelius]

@Victoralm I have done this and it worked until I updated kernel.

[Stan]

Didn't help in my case :\