![]() ![]() If there is no output for nouveau, then your installation has succeded. You can check if your system is running on the open source driver nouveau. It is also possible that the GPU driver is not available in your system driver database. If there is no output, most likely your your driver install process has failed. nvidia-390 is the latest driver version for the GTX 1xxx series).Īfter the installation is done, we need to reboot the computer: sudo reboot Step 6 – Verify Nvidia Driver installationĪfter the system has resumed, we can check if the driver has been installed correctly: lsmod | grep nvidia Please note that the command is different for each graphic card, depending on the driver available for it: sudo apt-get install nvidia-XYXYX Using the previously aquired information from step 2, we download and install the latest Nvidia driver supported by our GPU. We login into screen using the command: screen Step 5 – Install the Nvidia GPU driver To retrieve information about the latest version of the packages listed in the repository we run: sudo apt-get updateīefore we proceed to the next step, we need to install screen to make sure that our installation is not interrupted by network fluctuations that might close our SSH session. ![]() We can add the graphic-driver PPA using the following command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers Step 4- Prepare the system for the installation ![]() We can check this by visiting the following page and see what is the correct driver version for our graphic card.Īfterwards, we will visit the graphic driver PPA homepage here and see if our graphic card is compatible with the drivers present in the repository. We need to check what version of the latest drivers is our graphic card capable of running. We can do that by using the following command: sudo apt-get purge nvidia* Step 2 – Check the latest driver version for our Nvidia GPU Step 1 – Clean the system of other Nvidia driversīefore we start installing the correct driver, we need to clean the system of any previously installed driver that might create software issues. ![]() This tutorial will help users that want to install drivers for their NVIDIA GPU on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS OS. ![]()
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