Which nvidia driver from additional drivers option should I choose?
I have NVIDIA Geforece 7025 / nForce 630a integrated gfx card on my UBUNTU 12.04.And I have 4 options in Additional drivers:
- NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version 173)
- NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates)(version current updates)
- NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current)[Recommended]
- NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates)(version 173 updates)
I am currently using the First option.
My Problem is there I can't update the version 173 to the latest version of drivers using xswat PPA. Whenever I do it and reboot but the NVIDIA xserver sttings always shows me the same version.
Which option would allow me to update my drivers to the current version?
Let the built-in ubuntu-drivers program decide automatically which graphics driver to install. Open the terminal and type:
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
sudo reboot
The autoinstall command of ubuntu-drivers installs drivers that are appropriate for automatic installation including their dependencies. In Ubuntu 20.04 and later running sudo apt upgrade not only upgrades the versions of the proprietary graphics drivers that were installed by sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall. Sometimes sudo apt upgrade even upgrades the proprietary graphics driver packages to more recent packages, in which case sudo apt autoremove removes the older packages which were replaced by the newer ones. For most users there's no reason to guess about which proprietary graphics driver to install, because if your system deserves a graphics driver upgrade it will get one.
[recommended] is recommended
Generally, recommended is the best course of action.
If you have a specific bug, file a bug.
[recommended] is targeted to work for the largest number of users with recent hardware. It may or may not work for this problem.
I post it as an answer in hopes that someone with minor problems introduced by a post-release driver would at least try the recommended driver instead (e.g. there was an issue for ATI at one point where the post-release driver failed to install and broke everything, but the recommended driver worked mostly).
If it solves your problem, great. If it doesn't, I leave it here as a recommendation for other users to try who insist on edge drivers before trying out the recommended ones. I hope you understand the reasoning.