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
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
Maybe the installer did not recognize that the computer has a hybrid graphics solution.
Normally the package nvidia-prime
should be installed alongside the NVIDIA drivers automatically - to do it manually, open a terminal and execute the following command :
sudo apt install nvidia-prime
Now you can find the tab PRIME Profiles in the NVIDIA X Server Settings application.
![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9QftM.png)
Update addressing your comment that the package nvidia-prime
is already installed
Maybe something went wrong during the first installation process of the NVIDIA drivers.
Therefore un-install and re-install the packages nvidia-prime
and nvidia-settings
:
sudo apt purge nvidia-prime nvidia-settings
sudo apt install nvidia-prime nvidia-settings
As you did not provide further information about your graphics hardware, NVIDIA Prime is only effective when the computer has an integrated intel AND a dedicated NVIDIA graphics adapter.
Update addressing the comment in which you provided information about the hardware
As you have very new graphics hardware - using the latest stable drivers may solve the issue.
First uninstall every NVIDIA related software you have installed on your operating system :
sudo apt purge nvidia*
sudo reboot
After the restart install the latest official NVIDIA drivers 375.20 from the long-lived branch :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-375 nvidia-prime
sudo reboot
Best Answer
Using
apt-file list
on the two packages, the files are identical -- the only difference is the name of the location,/usr/share/doc/nvidia-driver-440
vs./usr/share/doc/nvidia-driver-440-server
Using
apt-cache depends
, the non-server metapackage has only the below five additional dependencies:--Looks like the ...server is a subset of the driver package without some possible vendor/cloud support.