Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by running, as root, sh. This may interact better with the rest of your distribution's framework, and you may want to use this rather than NVIDIA's official package.Īlso note that SuSE users should read the SuSE NVIDIA Installer HOWTO before downloading the driver.

You should see an NVIDIA logo on startup, just after the Ubuntu one.Note that many Linux distributions provide their own packages of the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver in the distribution's native package management format. The steps above are what I have used and got it running successfully. Make it an executable first if necessary: chmod +x nħ) If you did not have an nf file to edit earlier, let the installer create a configuration file for you when it asks.Ĩ) Startup X and restart Ubuntu: sudo services lightdm start In the Module section of the file, add the line (if it does not already exist): Load 'glx'Ħ) cd to the driver file and then install the driver: sudo sh n If it doesn't exist, skip this step:Īnd replace it with the line: Driver 'nvidia'

See the NOTE on the bottom.ģ) Boot to a different run level: sudo init 3ĥ) Manually edit the xorg configuration file. Sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/nfĪdd the following two lines, save then close:Ģ) Restart Ubuntu into recovery mode. No warranties expressed or implied - use at your own risk. Run the downloaded script from NVIDIA and follow all of its prompts: sudo Īt one point the NVIDIA script complained about some pre-install script having an error and gave me the option to continue or not - I continued.Remove old version drivers: sudo apt-get -purge remove $(dpkg -l | grep nvidia | awk '').Shutdown X-Windows: sudo service lightdm stop.Just replace F6 with any function key from F1 to F5.

might come in handy to switch back and forth at some point. By default Ubuntu seems to preconfigure 5 virtual consoles.

At this point I switched to a virtual console (hold down Ctrl+ Alt+ F6 at the same time).

Run sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` in a terminal.

I changed permissions on the file after download was complete to make it executable ( chmod +x >). It comes as a 'self extracting archive' that you run just like a shell script.

Download the appropriate Linux driver from.

Copy all instructions down somewhere or cut & paste to a text file you can read on a virtual console - you will be completing this without a graphical user interface.

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