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
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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) ...
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$ 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
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
