Strange crashes.

[dragos240]

I have been experiencing some system crashes lately, which I suspect the Nvidia driver is at fault, by default, ubuntu uses the non-free nvidia drivers, can I use the open source nvidia ones?

[dragos240]

Bump

[robert shearer]

Oh, ..is this like one of those "knock,knock jokes" where we say

"What card ?" ;)

Cheers, Bob :)

[dragos240]

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[TBABill]

Could be the opposite actually. Ubuntu will never install a proprietary driver without you instructing it to. It defaults to open source drivers and then prompts you that drivers are available, if it detects you have a card supported by a proprietary driver. If you did go through those steps, then yes you can revert to the right open source driver for your card (Nouveau?).

You'll need to post a bit more info about your card and current driver for assistance getting there though.

[dragos240]

Could be the opposite actually. Ubuntu will never install a proprietary driver without you instructing it to. It defaults to open source drivers and then prompts you that drivers are available, if it detects you have a card supported by a proprietary driver. If you did go through those steps, then yes you can revert to the right open source driver for your card (Nouveau?).

You'll need to post a bit more info about your card and current driver for assistance getting there though.

In hardware Drivers it says the license is proprietary. Should I uninstall the driver, and install the open one and reconfigure X?