The following tutorial will guide you through all steps required to install VGA NVIDIA driver on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus Linux.
To install Nvidia driver on other Linux distributions, follow our Nvidia Linux Driver guide.
Let’s start by detecting your NVIDIA VGA card model. Open terminal and enter a following linux command:
$ lshw -numeric -C display or $ lspci -vnn | grep VGA
The above commands will output your NVIDIA model number. For example:
$ lspci -vnn | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 680] [10de:1180] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
The model used by this system is GeForce GTX 680. In the next step we will use this information to find a correct NVIDIA driver within a Ubuntu’s package repository. However, before that, navigate your browser to NVDIA driver search page and enter your details:
After a successful search take a note of the resulting driver version number:
Version: 361.42 Release Date: 2016.3.30 Operating System: Linux 64-bit Language: English (US) File Size: 82.74 MB
The driver version number is 361.42. Depending on your relevant NVIDIA driver number based on the above search, install the actual NVIDIA driver directly from Ubuntu’s repository using apt-get command:
VERSION: 304 $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-304 VERSION: 340 $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-340 VERSION: 361 $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-361 ... Done. nvidia_361: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.4.0-18-generic/updates/dkms/ nvidia_361_modeset.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.4.0-18-generic/updates/dkms/ nvidia_361_uvm.ko: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.4.0-18-generic/updates/dkms/ depmod........ DKMS: install completed. Setting up ocl-icd-libopencl1:amd64 (2.2.8-1) ... Setting up nvidia-opencl-icd-361 (361.42-0ubuntu1) ... Setting up bbswitch-dkms (0.8-3ubuntu1) ... Loading new bbswitch-0.8 DKMS files... First Installation: checking all kernels... Building only for 4.4.0-18-generic Building initial module for 4.4.0-18-generic Done. bbswitch: Running module version sanity check. - Original module - No original module exists within this kernel - Installation - Installing to /lib/modules/4.4.0-18-generic/updates/dkms/ depmod.... DKMS: install completed. Setting up nvidia-prime (0.8.2) ... Setting up screen-resolution-extra (0.17.1) ... Setting up nvidia-settings (361.42-0ubuntu1) ... Setting up vdpau-driver-all:amd64 (1.1.1-3ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu6) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-18-generic Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3) ...
Now you are ready to reboot your system. After reboot, your can access NVIDIA’s configuration menu using start button and searching for nvidia:
