Install nvidia graphics driver under Ubuntu (easy installation method)

Install nvidia graphics driver under Ubuntu, install GTX1050 in the same way, and the installation is successful. No recurring login

The first step is to get the graphics card model

Find a way to get the model of your nvidia graphics card (generally, you will have the graphics card model when you buy a computer, my graphics card model is on a sticker on the computer), my graphics card is GTX970M.

The second step is to check the GTX970M graphics driver

Go to the NVDIA driver search page to check the version number of the latest version of the driver that supports the GTX970M graphics card

After a successful search take a note of the resulting driver version number:

The third step is to query other driver versions of the graphics card driver that supports GTX970M graphics card

Get the latest installed version 390 from above, but in order to prevent the new version from being unstable. We can query all driver versions that support 970M graphics card from geforce drivers, as shown below

Query results, as shown below

There are 390, 384, 375 and other versions in the picture

The fourth step of installation

Below we use ppa to install the 384 version of the driver instead of the latest version of the 390 driver
In terminal run, sudo apt-get install nvidia-384

If the above command reports an error, then execute the following command, otherwise do not execute

Update source, run

sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update

To query the available version of the nvidia driver, run sudo apt-cache search nvidia-* to query the version of the driver supported by the ppa installation, if there is 384

Install nvidia driver, sudo apt-get install nvidia-384

The fifth step is to test whether the nvidia driver is installed successfully

First, you need to restart the operating system, and then test whether the nvidia driver is installed successfully or not through the following methods

Under ubuntu seach invidia and open it, if the result is as follows, the installation is successful

Or execute nvidia-smi under terminal

surroundings

ubuntu 16.04
ubuntu 17.10
Graphics card model GTX970M

Reference

How to install the latest Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 16.04

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