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This guide is for installing the NVIDIA closed source binary/restricted drivers on a system running an NVIDIA graphics card. For other graphics cards refer to the BinaryDriverHowto.
Prerequisites
- You know you have an NVIDIA graphics card
- The command
lspci | grep -i nvidia
prints out a line of text - You want one or more of the following: hardware-accelerated 3D, TV-Out support, dual head support
Driver Versions
There are three versions of the restricted drivers available in the repositories for most supported versions of Ubuntu. There are the restricted driver versions available in each (as described in the repositories). Packages from the repositories:
- nvidia-glx-legacy
- nvidia-glx
- nvidia-glx-new
Ubuntu Release | nvidia-glx-new | nvidia-glx | nvidia-glx-legacy |
8.04 Hardy Heron | 169.12 | 96.43.05 | 71.86.04 |
7.10 Gutsy Gibbon | 100.14.19 | 1.0.9639 | 1.0.7185 |
6.06 Dapper Drake | N/A | 1.0.8776 | 1.0.7174 |
Intrepid Ibex uses only nvidia-glx
which is a virtual package. Dependent packages are as follows:
Installation
Ubuntu (Gnome)
Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 8.10
Go to System->Administration->Hardware Drivers and check the box to enable the restricted drivers for your NVIDIA card if the option is provided. The Hardware Drivers tool may not work properly on machines that have previously used third party tools like 'Envy' or manual installation to install previous drivers. You should remove those drivers before attempting to install using the built in tool. If your card does not appear in this list of cards known by Ubuntu 8.04 NVIDIA binary drivers (e.g. the 9600 GT) then there is no Ubuntu 8.04 provided binary driver. For unsupported workarounds try the links in [[UbuntuHelp:[seealso|See Also]]].
Ubuntu 7.10
For Ubuntu 7.10 the recommended way to install the binary drivers is to use System->Administration->Restricted Drivers Manager. This will try and automatically choose the correct driver version.
Kubuntu (KDE)
Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
Go to KMenu->System->Hardware Drivers Manager and check the box to enable the restricted drivers for your NVIDIA card if the option is provided.
Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
Go to KMenu->System Settings, go to the Advanced tab and click Restricted Drivers. Then click the Administrator Mode button and check the box marked Enable to install the driver. This should install the right package for your card and set it up for you.
Common Problems
Low Screen Resolutions
Often screen resolutions on offer are far lower than those offered with the open source driver. The NVIDIA binary driver seems to be very weak at reliably probing this information from the monitor and relies on additional information in xorg.conf. See this launchpad bug talking about lost resolutions when using the NVIDIA binary driver along with FixVideoResolutionHowto for further details and potential workarounds.
Screen Blanks/Monitor Turns Off
Using a laptop with a Ge``Force Go card, or connecting the sole display via DVI on a dual-head system sometimes results in the screen not receiving a picture. This is caused by the driver outputting video to the VGA port on the graphics card, instead of DVI.
The usual hint that you have this problem is when you hear the startup sound but nothing appears on the screen. If you do not hear any sound, you are more than likely experiencing unrelated problems.
This is a launchpad bug about displays on digital outputs being blank when using NVIDIA binary driver, and can be resolved by editing your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
file:
- Switch to the console (Try using
ctrl+alt+F1
, or reboot and select recovery mode from the GRUB menu.) - Use your text editor to open /etc/X11/xorg.conf. (try
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
) - Find the line that says
Section "Screen"
- Insert a new line that says
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
. - Save the file. If you had to restart into recovery mode, type
reboot
, otherwise restart your display usingsudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
.
Troubleshooting
- It seems that a reboot is sometimes necessary for these changes to take effect. If 3D acceleration isn't working, try this first.
- If 3D acceleration still isn't working, be sure that you have the right version of linux-restricted-modules installed. It must match the version of the running kernel.
- If you have the right version of linux-restricted-modules installed and 3D acceleration still isn't working, open your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
file for editing withgksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
orkdesu kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf
if using Kubuntu. Be sure that theDriver
entry underSection "Device"
is set to"nvidia"
(Gutsy and older). - If suspend/hibernation no longer works see NvidiaLaptopBinaryDriverSuspend (this applies to desktops too).
- If you get an error while loading NVIDIA module try to rebuild module dependencies by running depmod:
sudo depmod
- If you're feeling frisky and decide to fiddle around with the X Server Options for your Device in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
and Firefox refuses to load (returnssegmentation fault
when launched from a terminal), this line may be the culprit:
Option "NoRenderExtension" "On"
Either comment it out (using a # at the beginning the line) or set it to Off.
- If you have problems with video playback, e.g. in mplayer, gxine, or mythtv frontend with a legacy card, it may be due to too high a color depth (e.g. using NT6 Vanta/Vanta LT "nvidia" driver, I experienced flickering vertical bars & blue screen flashing). To fix this, manually edit
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
and changeDefaultDepth
to16
. - There is a list of cards supported by the latest NVIDIA binary drivers (which are not necessarily shipped in a particular Ubuntu version) in the release notes of the latest driver (173.14.12 at the time of writing). A link to the latest stable driver can usually be found on the NVIDIA Unix portal page. Links to beta drivers sometimes appear on the NVIDIA Linux web forum. Also see the following point.
- Information (and common problems encountered) related to manual installation of the NVIDIA binary driver (using the .pkg from the NVIDIA website) can be read on the NvidiaManual page.
- List of currently open NVIDIA binary driver bugs in launchpad.
- If
dmesg | grep -i nv
mentionsNVRM: Xid
your best bet is to follow these instructions and then contact NVIDIA as only NVIDIA have the source to decipher these error codes. Xid errors are caused for variety of reasons (interrupt issues, hardware conflicts/bugs, BIOS bugs, kernel bugs, driver bugs...) and receiving the same Xid code as someone else does not mean your problems are related. - If you have a problem where, after enabling the nvidia drivers via the Resricted Drivers Manager, X will no longer start, a possible workaround may be to remove and reinsert the nvidia kernel module by
rmmod nvidia && modprobe nvidia
. Symptoms include:
syslog contains entries like the following:
NVRM: RM/client version mismatch!! NVRM: aborting to avoid catastrophe!
Xorg.0.log contains entries like the following:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module!
lsmod | grep nvidia
reports that the nvidia kernel module is loaded.
If removing and reinserting the nvidia kernel module allows X to go ahead and start, it is possible to accomplish this at system start by making this the first command under the start) case in the gdm (or other display manager) init script, like so:
case "$1" in start) ##hack to deal with broken nvidia km not loading right### rmmod nvidia && modprobe nvidia
Another way of fixing this is to add
RUN+="/sbin/modprobe nvidia"
to /etc/udev/rules.d/90-modprobe.rules
- For other problems, please visit the forums at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ .
Free alternative
There is Nouveau: an open source 3D acceleration for NVIDIA cards. Currently (2008), there is only 2D-support, and a very limited 3D support for extremely lucky developers. See http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/. The users that have installed the proprietary driver can help the development of Nouveau, by sending information about their cards, see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/REnouveauDumps. <<Anchor(seealso)>>
See Also
- NvidiaManual - Guide to installing the official NVIDIA driver from the NVIDIA website on Ubuntu. Explains the drawbacks and benefits of manual installation and how to safely avoid conflicts with the Ubuntu provided NVIDIA binary drivers.
- NvidiaMultiMonitors
- The Ubuntu Forums