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In the Software & Updates app in Ubuntu 20.04, in the Additional Drivers tab, there is an NVIDIA Server Driver option that I don't remember seeing in previous Ubuntu releases. The package name is nvidia-driver-440-server.
What are the differences between this and nvidia-driver-440?
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
$ 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 upgradeInstall via PPA
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa$ sudo apt updatePotential 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.
enabled to disabledMaybe 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.
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 liston the two packages, the files are identical -- the only difference is the name of the location,/usr/share/doc/nvidia-driver-440vs./usr/share/doc/nvidia-driver-440-serverUsing
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.