Hello all, I am struggling to install a Nvidia driver for almost two weeks and slowly giving up. I reinstalled the newly Elementary OS probably 5 times already and still cannot find a way how to install the driver. I went through many guides on the forum and internet but none of them worked. Now I stuck on the low resolution 640x480 and any driver I installed not working. I have Nvidia GTX 980 graphic card, and last few days tried to install driver 465, 460, 450, 390. Result was: even the "nvidia-smi" showing that driver is installed, the X server is empty and low resolution is still cutting my eyes. The secure boot in IOS is turned off, nouveau workaround applied in the config file. These are added in: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (according: https://newbedev.com/how-to-disable-nouveau-kernel-driver) blacklist nouveau blacklist lbm-nouveau options nouveau modeset=0 alias nouveau off alias lbm-nouveau off I tried also these links: none of them worked though . Nvidia drivers reset after update and now monitor is "unknown" and stuck in 640x480 Nvidia driver problems on 18.04 https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/master/InstallingDrivers.md Completely removing old Nvidia drivers https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewto...sid=47bef6e9d81174f29e405858bcc98d28&start=20 https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1895521#p1895521 Unable to get nvidia running on ubuntu 18.04.2 https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux Is there normal way to install a current nvidia driver ? or am I forced to use a nouveau or old 390 version ? (I had old one running when I installed it manually few days ago, but I realized when kernel update will come I had to re-intall it again, so tried to work again on auto updating driver, via additional driver center). I will be really grateful if anyone can shade a light and help me. The OS reinstall is not a problem at this time, so I am willing to try any guide, just to have a latest driver working, even after reboot. With proper resolution of course. Many thanks. (if any output needed please tell me, I will provide it) output from nvidia-smi: $ nvidia-smi Sat May 15 10:04:13 2021 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 460.73.01 Driver Version: 460.73.01 CUDA Version: 11.2 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | 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 980 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A | | 36% 34C P0 49W / 300W | 0MiB / 4040MiB | 2% Default | | | | N/A | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=============================================================================| | No running processes found | +----------------------------------------------------
Oh men, you've really tried a lot (and good things). Does the nvidia driver work with other distros on your device? If not tried yet, I would try it with latest Linux Mint (Cinnamon) stable in your case.
