Ubuntu 14.04 & Nvidia GTX 960

[matthias12]

Thanks very much Jempa! You helped me a lot!

Cheers,
Matthias

[CliveMcCarthy]

Thank you so much for this post. Getting the 960 to work was getting tough, especially when Ctrl-Alt-F1 was lost.

I'm running a 4k display on Mint17 with the gtx960.

[member-e]

Perfect solution. Thanks. I think you have a typo . "blacklist lbm-nouveua" is rather "blacklist lbm-nouveau"

[rrobb]

Thank you so much.

Worked great in 14.04.2 with a GTX970 and 346.47.




Cory

[miska-paloposki]

in terminal write
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get install build-essential && sudo apt-get install linux-source && sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic....

Where you open terminal? If I try to install ubuntu I get black screen. Adding nomodeset on boot settings helps to pass black screen. After installation reboot I got stuck on black screen again but if I press shift on reboot I can get to grub menu. So again, where and how you open terminal? CTRL + ALT + F1 doesn't work.

[dotang76]

works perfect on 14.10 fresh install on gtx 960....grattitude for great post!

[zkneebone]

after upgrade to 15.04 I had all kinds of problems with the NVIDIA driver update.
first issue: stopping lightdm no longer kills x on my install
I had to perform the installation from a root terminal which was recommended by NVIDIA installation instructions.
Get to root terminal: reboot, hit [ESC] during boot, select [recovery] mode from grub menu, enter root shell
NVIDIA*.run said it could not access the /tmp folder. I then had to remount the filesystem with

sudo mount -a

second issue: the NVIDIA*.run file kept saying there is an error in initializing
turns out there was a script at /usr/lib/nvidia/pre-install
the content is this

#!/bin/sh


# Trigger an error exit status to prevent the installer from overwriting
# Ubuntu's nvidia packages.


exit 1

changing the 1 to 0 enabled the nvidia install script to run

third issue: the installer didn't like the new kernel but I was able to recompile it with the new kernel
./NVIDIA*.run --add-this-kernel
which output a different script NVIDIA*-custom.run which was successful
This was a big help but I want to post my additional steps here for others who are having trouble.

[pi6502]

Hi there,

I've ordered a Gtx960 and will do a fresh 14.04 LTS after mounting it (I'm currently 12.04 LTS with an ATI 4890 HD).
When/how shall I enter those commands, since I presume the screen will go black after rebooting, i.e. finishing the installation process?

One more thing: The procedure to have steam running on ubuntu 12.04 LTS was a little cumbersome. I had to install first the open video driver, then steam, and then install the proprietary one, otherwise I would get errors. Is this the same with the nvidia proprietary driver, steam and 14.04 LTS?

[m.xander]

Thanks Jempa333 for this extremely useful post. Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 WindForce OC 4GB successfully set up with multiple monitors on Ubuntu Studio 14.04.

[tjeremiah]

I have Ubuntu 14.04 64bit and NVIDIA Geforce GTX 960 that caused me a lot of problems to install. Hopefully this can help somebody:


in terminal write
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get install build-essential && sudo apt-get install linux-source && sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub #change line "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT..."-line to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nouveau.blacklist=1 quiet splash nomodeset" #(forces low-level graphics to ensure putty does not give black screen)
sudo update-grub2
sudo apt-get remove nvidia* && sudo apt-get autoremove #ensures no former installation clashes with new install
sudo reboot

After reboot get correct nvidia-driver (chose graphic-card and OS) at “http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us" (or search webb with “nvidia download”). Right-click on downloaded file and change if to executable.
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf #add these lines at the end:
blacklist vga16fb
blacklist nouveau
blacklist rivafb
blacklist nvidiafb
blacklist rivatv
blacklist lbm-nouveua
options nouveau modeset=0
alias nouveau off
alias lbm-nouveau off

Open a putty-terminal with Ctrl + Alt + F1
sudo service lightdm stop #stops graphic session to enable nvidiainstallation
cd Downloads #(or wherever you downloaded your nvidia-file)
sudo ./{the downloadedfilename.run} #follow installation-instructions (normally yes to all)sudo nvidia-xconfig #(if you did not chose “yes” to this in the installation”
sudo nano /etc/default/grub # change the "GRUB_CMBLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT..."-line to below:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset”
sudo update-grub2 #update grub!
sudo reboot


hopefully it works for you now as it did for me...

Thanks you so much! Works well with my gtx 960.