Ubuntu 14.04 doesn't detect my discrete GPU

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Published on 2014-06-06T17:50:13Z Indexed on 2014/06/06 21:52 UTC
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I recently purchased a laptop with an Nvidia GeForce 860m, and have installed Ubuntu 14.04. On my old laptop I had 12.04, which automatically filled Additional Drivers with Nvidia drivers. But on this computer, the only thing in Additional Drivers is Qualcomm. So I manually installed Nvidia, but X Server Settings doesn't seem to detect any GPU...

lspci | grep VGA reports only my integrated Intel GPU, but

lspci -v reports many things, including the Nvidia GPU:

01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 860M] (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 157d
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at ed000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: access denied

Don't know what any of that means. Not sure if it's supposed to say 'access denied'...

I need my GPU to do CUDA and OpenGL programming. What else can I do to figure out why this isn't working?

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