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Re: [LUG] Multi head with Jessie.

 

On 24/06/15 01:40, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> What driver are you using for the GTX970?

ghost@failbot:~$ apt-cache policy nvidia-current
nvidia-current:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 304.125-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1
  Version table:
     304.125-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu/ trusty/main
amd64 Packages
     304.125-0ubuntu0.0.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
trusty-updates/restricted amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
trusty-security/restricted amd64 Packages
     304.117-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/restricted amd64
Packages

ghost@failbot:~$ dpkg -l | grep nvidia
rc  nvidia-343
343.22-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1
amd64        NVIDIA binary driver - version 343.22
ii  nvidia-346
346.72-0ubuntu0~xedgers14.04.2
amd64        NVIDIA binary driver - version 346.72
rc  nvidia-opencl-icd-343
343.22-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1
amd64        NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii  nvidia-opencl-icd-346
346.72-0ubuntu0~xedgers14.04.2
amd64        NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
rc  nvidia-prime                                  0.6.2
                                               amd64        Tools to
enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii  nvidia-settings
352.21-0ubuntu0~xedgers14.04.1
amd64        Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver

Looks a bit messy, because it is. Had so many problems recently with my
tortured Ubuntu installation I ended up purging PPAs, flushing caches
and ripping out everything until my system went back to "just working".
I'm adding stuff back in cautiously now so my workstation is a bit of a
mess at the moment.

>From experience it's not usually the Nvidia drivers that are the
problem, more third party patches to cairo or mesa that wreck everything.

I'd recommend going with the stock (proprietary) drivers on Debian, or
the xorg-edgers PPA if you're on Ubuntu/Mint. Forget Nouveau for a GTX 970.

Cheers

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