Nvidia Drivers - Synaptic

Question

So I am in synaptic package manager and want to install a new Nvidia driver

I see:

• Nvidia-319
• Nvidia-319-updates

which one should I pick? Which on is the non-free proprietary one?

I have a gtx580.

Solution

To know which one should you pick, use the following command in terminal:

ubuntu-drivers devices | grep recommended

It will return the recommended video driver for your machine.

If ubuntu-drivers is not found, run the following command in terminal to install it:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-drivers-common

Comments

[Cagatay]

jan@jan-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y550:~$ ubuntu-drivers devices | grep recommended ubuntu-drivers: command not found

[Radu Rădeanu]

@user320 You can find it in Ubuntu Software Center: apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/ubuntu-drivers-common