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Install Nvidia Drivers in Ubuntu

The document provides instructions for installing Nvidia graphics drivers in Ubuntu. It involves removing any existing Nvidia drivers, downloading necessary tools, blacklisting the nouveau driver, downloading the Nvidia driver from their website, running the driver installation file with sudo, and rebooting. The installation file will guide the user through additional steps, including registering the kernel module with DKMS and allowing the driver to configure X. If graphics issues occur after rebooting, the user can run nvidia-xconfig and reboot again.

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Install Nvidia Drivers in Ubuntu

The document provides instructions for installing Nvidia graphics drivers in Ubuntu. It involves removing any existing Nvidia drivers, downloading necessary tools, blacklisting the nouveau driver, downloading the Nvidia driver from their website, running the driver installation file with sudo, and rebooting. The installation file will guide the user through additional steps, including registering the kernel module with DKMS and allowing the driver to configure X. If graphics issues occur after rebooting, the user can run nvidia-xconfig and reboot again.

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Install Nvidia Drivers in Ubuntu

Lets remove first everything that point to any existing nvidia installation.

open a terminal (ctrr+alt+t) and type:


sudo apt-get remove nvidia*

sudo apt-get autoremove

update and download a few tools that we will need:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic

Now its time to blacklist the nouveau driver.

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

and add the following lines:

blacklist nouveau
blacklist lbm-nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off

Disable the Kernel nouveau by typing the following commands:

echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf

sudo update-initramfs -u

Now go to nvidia.com and download the driver for your graphic card.

The file name should be something like that "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-352.21.run" depends on


the architecture of your machine and the version of the driver.

Reboot your computer and at login screen press "ctrl+alt+F1. That will redirect you to one of
the active terminals. Login with your credentials and navigate to your Downloads directory
cd ~/Downloads/

chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-352.21.run
Replace "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-352.21.run" with the name of the file that you Download in
the previous step.

Stop the X-server:

sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop

execute the installation:

sudo ./ NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-352.21.run

follow the instructions on the screen:

At that point you might get a warning that " The distribution-provided pre-install script failed!
are you sure that you want to continue?" You can select continue on this one.

Next it will ask you to register the kernel module source with DKMS. Select "yes"

If you dont have 32 bit compatibility the you will get a warning. Just select ok.

You might get a few more steps depends on the hardware and driver version but just before
the installation finish it will ask you if you want to let the installation to run the nvidia-xconfig
for you. Please let this one run unless you want and you know how to do that manually.

once you finish reboot your computer:

reboot

In case that the graphics are not as they suppose to be, open a command line and type the
following:

sudo nvidia-xconfig

And then reboot again

Important note!
Some under-clocked NVIDIA graphic cards and M versions might have issues with the latest
drivers. Try to use an older driver from the Nvidia archives website if the latest driver fails.

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