Difference between revisions of "Talk:NVidia Linux Compatibility"

Latest revision as of 15:00, 13 January 2024

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

update 2024 01 - attempting to try

Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver
 
Version: 	390.157
Release Date: 	2022.11.22
Operating System: 	Linux 64-bit
Language: 	English (US)
File Size: 	81.86 MB 

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

ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

Use Nvidia Graphics Drivers In Ubuntu/Linux Mint For Best Performance

PPA to install latest drivers for NVIDIA graphics card

Different version of drivers available for NVIDIA cards which is managed in xorg-edgers PPA. Supported OS Ubuntu 15.04/14.10/14.04/12.04/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13/and other related Ubuntu derivatives

Ubuntu Restricted repos

How to Add the Universe, Multiverse and Restricted Repositories in Ubuntu

The Ubuntu Restricted repository contains proprietary drivers. For example, you may find NVIDIA GPU drivers in here. This repository is officially supported by the Ubuntu team. The software in this repository is build somewhat 'downstream' from the hardware manufacturers/vendor. For example, NVIDIA may release a new driver set for it's GPU's, and the team at Ubuntu will integrate these drivers into it's restricted repository.

There are three additional repositories which you can enable, or disable, namely Universe, Multiverse and Restricted.

The Universe repository provides a collection of additional software which can be installed on your Ubuntu workstation. This repository provide community maintained open source software, and whilst there is no official support for the packages/applications within it, most of the software in the Ubuntu Software Centre comes from this repository.

The Ubuntu Multiverse repository is contains software packages which may come with copyright or legal issues.

The Ubuntu Restricted repository contains proprietary drivers. For example, you may find NVIDIA GPU drivers in here.

Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu

simulate an install using the s switch to see what it will install if anything

sudo apt-get install -s ubuntu-restricted-extras

Many users install ubuntu-restricted-extras without seeming to run into problems, but the Linux Mint equivalent is called mint-meta-codecs