NVIDIA Driver with External Display on Left Fails

[NoWorries]

I'll get back to ya on that ,,,,I just added neon to my 16.04 and want to play with it for a day or 3 before I add this as well

VINNY

I am not sure if you have been successful in adding the graphics-drivers URL into Synaptic. I have just tired it on a system that doesn't have an NVIDIA card and with using Synaptic's URL for adding sources, it required a key. I did this by using the following command line

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys FCAE110B1118213C

Hope it all works for you an I will be interested to know what happens when the external monitor is put on the left.

[vinnywright]

I am not sure if you have been successful in adding the graphics-drivers URL into Synaptic. I have just tired it on a system that doesn't have an NVIDIA card and with using Synaptic's URL for adding sources, it required a key. I did this by using the following command line

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys FCAE110B1118213C

Hope it all works for you an I will be interested to know what happens when the external monitor is put on the left.

I am hesitant to add a PPA just for 1 ver higher a driver ,,,,,,,,,, how do you fair with the drivers from their ?

VINNY

[NoWorries]

I am hesitant to add a PPA just for 1 ver higher a driver ,,,,,,,,,, how do you fair with the drivers from their ?

VINNY

The main difference was with the external display on the left. The primary monitor didn't move with the cursor like the external display. Otherwise there was no difference.

If you decide to try the next version, you can always uncheck the repository if you are not happy with it, and then purge nvidia*. After clearing out all the related packages you can then install the old version.

I have finally filed a bug report on this issue and it is at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361918. I referred to the discussions on this page as evidence.