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Installing Nvidia propreatary drivers in Linux with UEFI enabled
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If, like me, your are booting with UEFI (because having a triple boot ubuntu-windows-mac or because UEFI is the most modern type of bootloader and successor of EFI :p), you have to sign the proprietary modules each time they are recompiled (or upgrade kernel version) so that they are allowed to be loaded in the kernel. | |
1) Step one, create a self-signed certificate to sign nvidia driver: | |
sudo openssl req -new -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout UEFI.key -outform DER -out UEFI.der -nodes -days 36500 -subj "/CN=rambou_nvidia/" | |
2) step two load and store certificate in a supplementary key database MOC | |
sudo mokutil --import UEFI.der | |
3) step three reboot your system | |
At this step after reboot you will be prompted to select your certificate to import in in key database. If you have inserted a password at certificate creation you'll be prompted to insert it. If you are not prompted, you may have to enter the BIOS by using function keys at boot time. | |
4) Now we can install our nvidia driver, but first let us take a selfi... no seriously we need to take a selfi with our lovely linux installation because it can be fucked... | |
just kidding :D, it will not! | |
5) Before we install we first need to uninstall previous drivers, probably nouveau. | |
sudo apt-get remove nvidia* && sudo apt-get autoremove | |
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf | |
and add lines below | |
``` | |
blacklist nouveau | |
blacklist lbm-nouveau | |
options nouveau modeset=0 | |
alias nouveau off | |
alias lbm-nouveau off | |
``` | |
disable the Kernel Nouveau by typing these lines in a terminal window: | |
echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf | |
and after that | |
update-initramfs -u | |
Now you can reboot your computer, and when you get to the login prompt, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to exit to the terminal console. Login with your username and password. stop your display manager or the X server, | |
sudo service lightdm stop | |
7) finall step install nvidia drivers | |
sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-319.32.run -s --module-signing-secret-key=/path/to/UEFI.key --module-signing-public-key=/path/to/UEFI.der | |
Information about installing nvidia driver in ubuntu xenial-xerus can be found in this post | |
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-latest-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-16-04-xenial-xerus | |
Information about installing and signing nvidia driver can be found in the official nvidia website. | |
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/319.32/README/installdriver.html | |
Information about uninstall nouveau and disable xorg (answer) | |
http://askubuntu.com/questions/451221/how-do-i-install-the-nvidia-driver-for-a-geforce-gt-630 | |
Information about backup or restore if something goes wrong | |
http://askubuntu.com/questions/760997/how-to-recover-from-a-nvidia-fail-on-ubuntu-16-04 |
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