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Gregory Opera
Asked: 2020-09-23 04:22:04 +0800 CST

Can't Change GPU Driver (Additional Drivers)

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When I open Software & Updates, I am told that I am using a "manually installed driver" (which is apparently not proprietary): Screenshot of "Additional Drivers" dialog box

I'm not too sure why Ubuntu is telling me this, as I explicitly chose to use the latest version of Nvidia's proprietary driver when I "clean" installed Ubuntu on Launch Day... I installed this driver via the "Additional Drivers" tab of "Software & Updates".

Somebody asked a similar question over here, but when I followed the suggestion over there, I am told:

E: Unable to locate package nvidia.*

Here's the output of lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display':

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics (rev 02)
    DeviceName: VGA
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. UHD Graphics
    Kernel driver in use: i915
    Kernel modules: i915
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02:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP108BM [GeForce MX250] (rev a1)
    DeviceName: Second VGA
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GP108BM [GeForce MX250]
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia
    Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

And the output of inxi -SbCGxx can be found over here.

How can I select Nvidia's proprietary driver in the "Additional Drivers" dialog box, to ensure that I am using the current (stable) version of their proprietary driver?

My laptop is the ASUS ZenBook Duo UX481FL, with an Nvidia GeForce MX250 GPU under Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ("Focal Fossa").

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Got it fixed... The way I did it was like this:

    sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

    Restart my laptop.

    sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get autoremove

    Restart my laptop.

    Re-install the proprietary driver via the "Additional Drivers" tab of "Software & Updates".

    Restart my laptop.

    I Went back into the "Additional Drivers" tab of "Software & Updates" - now it says I am using the latest proprietary driver ("450", at the time of writing).

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