Answered How i do install NVidia drivers?

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  1. Vaziik

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    I already read the guides that are present in the forum but once i install the driver elementary wont load the graphic so i got only a black screen, so i had to purge Nvidia driver in order to get the system start again.

     
    #1 Vaziik, Feb 3, 2017
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  2. Artificial Intelligence

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    Have you tried the driver that comes in elementary app store instead?
     
    #2 Artificial Intelligence, Feb 4, 2017
  3. Frederik Vos

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    Like Artificial said: there is no reason to use the latest drivers, the ones in the repos are fine.

    sudo apt-get install intel-microcode
    sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

    then

    sudo prime-select nvidia

    or if you need bumblebee:

    sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia

    and don't forget this one:

    rm /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop

    otherwise from times to times it takes minutes before you have a desktop after login
     
    #3 Frederik Vos, Feb 4, 2017
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    I think i love you? Yes definitely! I solved thanks very much. Now my games uses nvdia card, and this is really good because it boosted performance :D
     
    #4 Vaziik, Feb 6, 2017
  5. Steven Duhaime

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    I've been struggling to install these drivers on my MacBook Pro...I think it's a 6,2. (Mid 2010)

    I've tried some various things I've found online, but each time I get a black screen on reboot. I can't seem to get past that, even after tweaking the grub file in /etc/default.
    I've got eOS installed on sdb3, with rEFIt installed on sdb1 (Mac HFS+) When the computer boots I hold the option key, select the 2nd drive, then get the rEFIt menu.
     
    #5 Steven Duhaime, Feb 8, 2017
  6. Frederik Vos

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    is there any error message of 'unable' message in the file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log look especially for a message about the
    DFP-0 device

    (normally you should be able to access sdb3 from macosx as well, so you can read this logfile)
     
    #6 Frederik Vos, Feb 8, 2017
  7. Steven Duhaime

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    sdb3 is my Elementary root partition. (I only have partitions for root and swap) I can't read it from OS X, I don't want to mess around with FUSE or anything like that.

    I tried it again, using the instructions above, and got the same black screen. I didn't see anything about the DFP-0 device. (I booted from a CD and mounted the filesystem, and read it from there)

    I think it's something with the driver, the screen goes black before the kernel even finishes loading. (It seems the kernel loads the graphics module, then switches to that driver even for the console prior to the login manager starting.)
     
    #7 Steven Duhaime, Feb 11, 2017

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