Talk:NVidia Linux Compatibility

NVIDIA GeForce GT 440

$ lspci

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 440] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)

$ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00000DE0sv00001458sd00003518bc03sc00i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
model    : GF108 [GeForce GT 440]
driver   : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free recommended
driver   : nvidia-340 - distro non-free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

.....

MS: install completed.
Setting up libnvidia-gl-390:amd64 (390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.3) ...
Setting up libnvidia-ifr1-390:amd64 (390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.3) ...
Setting up nvidia-driver-390 (390.116-0ubuntu0.18.04.3) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.8) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-54-generic
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda2
I: (UUID=11b8bc84-6287-4df8-8cbb-70a7990f0d7a)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...

.....

$ ubuntu-drivers  list
nvidia-340
nvidia-driver-390

$ dkms status
nvidia, 390.116, 4.15.0-54-generic, x86_64: installed

Links

• Black screen after nvidia driver installation - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=287624

• Problems installing Nvidia drivers - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=304336

• Problem with Broken Graphic Driver (Nvidia) - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=285536

• Graphic garbage after installing Nvidia driver - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=38754

440

lshw -numeric -C display
 *-display                 
      description: VGA compatible controller
      product: GF108 [GeForce GT 440] [10DE:DE0]
      vendor: NVIDIA Corporation [10DE]
      physical id: 0
      bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
      version: a1
      width: 64 bits
      clock: 33MHz
      capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
      configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
      resources: irq:16 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff