Proprietary drivers are not proposed since Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits installation

[ciryon03]

Hello people !

At the end of august I've decided to install the 64 bits version of Ubuntu 14.04, previously I was on the 32 bits version. I've made a clean install and after the install I saw that the nvidia proprietary driver were not proposed anymore unlike my previous run on the 32 bits, I've opened a bug on launchpad : but at this time, this is not yet solved so I use for now a PPA which seems to have the latest version.

If anybody has the solution.

Thanks !

[MartyBuntu]

What NVIDIA card do you have?

[ciryon03]

The Nvidia GT 740.

[MartyBuntu]

You've tried installing proprietary drivers from the Ubuntu Software Center?

[ciryon03]

No. Since in the 32 bits I had them already on the sofwtare update manager, I assumed that in 64 bits it would be the same.

[MartyBuntu]

Normal Ubuntu releases do not have proprietary drivers already activated. You need to install them.

[Vladlenin5000]

By "software update manager" you mean System settings > Software&Updates then the rightmost tab "Additional Drivers"? If so yes, it should appear there regardless of the CPU architecture.

[ciryon03]

Normal Ubuntu releases do not have proprietary drivers already activated. You need to install them.

Well the last times I have installed a normal Ubuntu release before the 14.04 64 bits (so if I remember well the 11.04, 11.09 en 12.04 in 32 bits), Ubuntu has always proposed me in "additional driver" tab of the update manager, the nvidia proprietary driver. Before having a GT740 I had a 8400 GS and it was recognized and the driver proposed. I had to activate it yes, but it was available. This is not the case with my 14.04 64 bits installation and I've done the installation twice.

[ciryon03]

By "software update manager" you mean System settings > Software&Updates then the rightmost tab "Additional Drivers"? If so yes, it should appear there regardless of the CPU architecture.

Yes exactly whay I mean.

[dave0109]

Looks like the GT740 wasn't supported until nvidia-337, and Ubuntu 14.04 only has nvidia-331. Perhaps this is why it didn't offer any additional driver.