Hi, regrettably my first post in this community is one asking for help. To get to the point, I can’t switch my Additional Drivers from the X.Org X Server Nouveau open source selection to an Nvidia Proprietary one. I’m using an Nvidia GTX 750 Ti card.
I believe the cause may be related somewhat to what’s discussed in this post here from the forum, but I’m not exactly 100% sure, and would not rather assume.
Far as I can tell, I updated my system today, and two things did not update properly. The packages failed, and I am pretty certain they were nvidia-opencl-icd-364 and libcuda1-364. I tried a few things before finally decided to come here (And I am rather thankful I recently did a file back up just in case I’m up a creek here, or get that way ):
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First I used the Software Boutique to try to fix broken/interrupted packages. Didn’t help, still got the same error, and my system updater tried to get me to download those same packages which said were already downloaded.
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Thinking maybe if I removed the PPA that you can optionally install in the Welcome screen for more Nvidia drivers ( ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa) and redo the system update would help it somehow, along with choosing the “best” possible server to download updates from instead of the US main. Eh, flawed logic I suppose. Didn’t work either.
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Reading various things on google, and then coming to this forum and reading the linked topic above, this might be my issue. But again I’m not sure, though I did try removing the packages through synaptic as that was met with some success by lah7. Synaptic fails to remove the packages for some reason that I can’t grasp, despite being on the main account and all of the computer. I haven’t quite yet tried the other methods in that thread yet, as I’ve seen it requires a networking cable, and it’s rather difficult for me to lug my computer from where I am, to where the modem/router is up a flight of stairs to plug it in. However, if it truly comes down to that, I’ll give it a shot when I’m able. I’d just figure I’d get the opinion, thoughts, and so on of other people that’ll probably know better than me before I make a serious user error.
Any assistance with this issue would be most welcome please, and I’d be very thankful.