Nvidia Driver Ppa
I've been experiencing some issues with the newer nvidia drivers and wanted to revert to older ones to test some stuff out. Problem is, no matter. Nvidia driver 410 listed by ppa and ubuntu-drivers but does not seem to be installable via apt. Ask Question. Up vote 1 down vote favorite. I have a GTX 660M and Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit. According to the official website, the latest graphics driver for this card is version 410.66.
Currently, many people in the computer install Nvidia Drivers to play games. Earlier Nvidia Drivers only supported Windows and Mac, but now they also support the Linux operating system, so now you can enjoy gaming on Linux too. Nvidia makes top gaming graphics cards but Nvidia driver installed on a Linux desktop is not easy, but it is now easier. In this article am going to show you ‘How to Install NVIDIA Drivers on Ubuntu’.
Install NVIDIA Drivers on Ubuntu
Follow the below Steps to Install NVIDIA Drivers on Ubuntu:
The objective is to install the NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Linux. This article will discuss three methods of Nvidia driver installation in the following order: Automatic Install using standard Ubuntu Repository Automatic Install using PPA repository to install Nvidia Beta. Obviously, since the latest driver is not tested with Ubuntu, you will see more issues than the ones available in the Ubuntu’s tested PPA. Keeping all these in mind, I recommend to install nvidia drivers from PPA repository for a stable PC.
Now just enter the following command and start adding GPU driver PPA to the package sources in the Ubuntu system.
update your system package by entering following command.
Intel Driver
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Enter the following command to install Nvidia’s latest version. Writing the article Nvidia-390 is the latest version so Nvidia-390 is entered in the command.
After installing the Nvidia driver, reboot the system and check Nvidia driver. To check Nvidia drivers, go to the application and search for ‘Nvidia’
Search Install Nvidia drivers
Nvidia Driver Package
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Nvidia Old Drivers
Now you can see NVIDIA Drivers is successfully installed. Now you can enjoy gaming. You can check NVIDIA using the following grep command.
If the Nvidia driver does not work in your Ubuntu system, use the following command to remove it.
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If you want to uninstall graphics-drivers completely then you can use the following command.
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Ubuntu 18.04 Nvidia Driver Ppa
That’s all, In this article, we have explained How to Install NVIDIA Drivers on Ubuntu. I hope you enjoy this article. If you like this article, then just share it. If you have any questions about this article, please comment.
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