Install Latest Nvidia Driver in Ubuntu 18.04

nvidia_driver_install_ubuntu_18.md

Install Latest Nvidia Driver in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Step: 1

Remove previous installation

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get autoremove 

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Step: 2

Install Dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc-7 gcc-multilib dkms

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Step: 3

Blacklist for Nouveau Driver

Create a new file at /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf with the following contents-

blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

then excute

sudo update-initramfs -u

And Restart (sudo reboot)

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Step: 4

Stop gdm

sudo service gdm stop

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Step: 5

Excuting the Runfile

Download latest driver from here

cd Downloads

chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.14.run
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.14.run --dkms -s --no-cc-version-check

Note: --no-cc-version-check is for Compiler Mismatch problem

Common Problems and Solutuins

Problem 1:

ERROR: An NVIDIA kernel module 'nvidia' appears to already be loaded in your kernel.

Solutuins:

dkms status

if the output is something like this nvidia-410, 410.78, 4.4.0-138-generic, x86_64: installed, then we need comma seperated first three string- nvidia-410, 410.78, 4.4.0-138-generic

$ sudo dkms remove nvidia-410/410.78 -k 4.4.0-138-generic

This is very useful. What happens afterwards... I got some error

nvidia-smi
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 450.51.06 Driver Version: 450.51.06 CUDA Version: 11.0 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 108... On | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
|ERR! 53C P0 ERR! / 250W | 1MiB / 11175MiB | 100% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+