Default fresh 13.04 install does not offer the nvidia drivers and doesn't recognize my monitor: It thinks I am running a laptop and offers me only the choice of either 800x600 or 1024x768 (yuk) 4:3 resolution when I have a 16:9 monitor.
As soon as I install the nvidia drivers and reboot, bad things happen, I see a brief flash of purple then it hangs with a black screen. I was lucky to be able to get to the grub prompt and select the CLI where I uninstalled everything nvidia and was able to at least get back to a 1024x768 GUI.
I was previously running 12.10 with an ATI HD5790 card which I had to replace due to a bad fan. It was previously able to detect this card and set my monitor to the correct resolution without any difficulty, and offered me the chance to install the closed source drivers.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: nvidia-current (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 23 20:50:19 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-23 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130419)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-304
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
If you have an NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN, you will need the 313.26 driver available from http://
The later driver is recommended as it fixes an important security bug. I mentioned the earlier driver because you can see in it's changelog the mention of added support for the TITAN.