Ubuntu – Latest NVIDIA driver on Ubuntu 16.04

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I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I notice that in the "Additional Drivers" tab of "Software & Updates", the latest versions of NVIDIA drivers I can install are

version 367.57 from nvidia-367 (proprietary)
version 370.28 from nvidia-370 (open source)

Aside from the fact that I don't know what "proprietary" and "open source" mean here, I also don't see an option to select the driver version based on my actual graphics card. I'm using GTX 1080 and the current Long Lived Branch version is 375.20; will the Ubuntu graphics PPA be updated eventually, or will I have to manually install 375?

Best Answer

I cant find any reference to support in jockey for nVidia 375 yet. But the manual installation isn't as difficult as you might think.

Official Instructions

Download the driver version 375.20 from here
$ chmod 777 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.20.run
$ sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.20.run
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Install via PPA

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
$ sudo apt update

Potential Issues

Black screen on startup - Add nomodeset to grub - see this answer
Removing nVidia Drivers - Purge - see this answer

Addendum to the Login Loop issue, via @michael__treat :

Make sure that secure boot is disabled in Windows Boot Manager. The walk-through from Ubuntu may be incomplete. During testing, I found that I had to use the Windows System Boot Manager, and manually disable secure boot.

This solved the login loop issue in my case.

TL;DR: Make sure secure boot is actually turned off.

When you reach grub, go to windows boot manager
Press e
change secureboot from enabled to disabled

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Ubuntu – Ubuntu 16.04: NVIDIA drivers don’t work for GTX 960M

I was facing same problem. I use the same GPU. Skylake and gtx960m

Here is how i fixed it.

Disable the secure boot and reboot

update the gl alternatives: run

sudo update-alternatives --config x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf

choose the nvidia drivers you have. this is what it looks for me:

There are 3 choices for the alternative x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf (providing /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf).

Selection    Path                                       Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/lib/nvidia-375/ld.so.conf              8604      auto mode
  1            /usr/lib/nvidia-375-prime/ld.so.conf        8603      manual mode
  2            /usr/lib/nvidia-375/ld.so.conf              8604      manual mode
  3            /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/ld.so.conf   500       manual mode

Now your nvidia device files should be created in /dev.

In case you are stuck in login-loop, just purge and install nvidia drivers again and login by logging into tty1
```
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*
apt-cache search nvidia 
```
(you will find some versions of drivers - choose one to test install)
```
sudo service lightdm stop
sudo apt-get install nvidia-375 (for example)
sudo service lightdm start
```

Everything works.

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