Nvidia Drivers - Synaptic

Question

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

I see:

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

I have a gtx580.

Radu Rădeanu · Answer 1 · 2013-10-19T15:18:37.397

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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

edited Oct 19 '13 at 15:18

answered Oct 19 '13 at 14:58

Radu Rădeanu

jan@jan-Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y550:~$ ubuntu-drivers devices | grep recommended ubuntu-drivers: command not found – Oct 19 '13 at 15:07
@user320 You can find it in Ubuntu Software Center: https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/ubuntu-drivers-common/ – Radu Rădeanu Oct 19 '13 at 15:14

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