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[sallyvdv]

Steven,
If your homework does not require using that specific video card (I don't
know what classes you have), a simple solution would be to run Ubuntu in a
virtual machine on Windows instead of dual booting.  VMware player is free
and would provide you with a generic virtual graphics card for the Ubuntu
guest machine.  Loading Ubuntu onto a VM can be as simple as pointing the
VMware player at a downloaded .ISO file. The beauty of this type of
solution is that you can run Windows and Linux simultaneously -- no need to
reboot when switching between the two. If you install VMware tools (also
free) then you can cut and paste between the guest and host machines and
that can come in handy when doing homework as well.

Good luck,
Sally Vandeven



On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Steven Wauford <swauford at wccnet.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I just subscribed to this mailing list, but I have an interesting
> question.  On my desktop, i'm attempting to dual-boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu
> 12.04.  My biggest issue is that my graphics card is a Geforce GTX 760
> graphics card.  When I look in the section for additional drivers, it says
> that there are three Nvidia drivers, but none of them are active, and for
> me to use Ubuntu, I have to pull my computer out from under my desk, move
> my HDMI cable from the back of my graphics card to my motherboard's HDMI
> port.  I'm really wanting to be able to leave my inputs the way they are
> without having to continually do that when attempting to do my homework for
> classes.  Any ideas?
>
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