Installing proprietary Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu

Installing proprietary NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu

Graphics Card Support:
SLAC IT does not support graphics drivers that are not part of the standard operating system.  If you want to replace the Ubuntu,CentOS 7,RHEL supported Nouveau driver with the proprietary Nvidia driver. You are now responsible for any graphics configuration on your machine.  SLAC IT is not responsible for supporting non-standard graphics drivers.

Installing proprietary NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu (GUI)

1: Open Additional Drivers

2: Select the NVIDIA driver of your choice and Apply Changes

3: Reboot the system 

Installing proprietary Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu (CLI)

1:Open the terminal application and search & list all nvidia drivers using     

apt search nvidia-driver

2: Run Updates & upgrade

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

3: Installing NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu (Choose a driver that was listed in step 1)

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-X

4: Reboot the machine

 sudo reboot

5: Verification run (This list information about the installed NVIDIA gpu)

nvidia-smi

How to Configure your NVIDIA graphics driver

1: Open NVIDIA x Server Settings App in the Gui

nvidia-settings