Need help with installing the graphics driver

**#&thj^%** · August 15th, 2024

No he did not use different naming....I've sent Daniel a email, letting him know about this:
But for now I've kind of cheated here, so please now run:

Code:

sudoedit '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/dtl131-ubuntu-nvidiaexp-noble.sources'

And change the line "Suites: noble" to "Suites: jammy' ie:

Code:

URIs: https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/dtl131/nvidiaexp/ubuntu/
Suites: jammy
Components: main
Signed-By:

Now run

Code:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install nvidia-driver-390 nvidia-dkms-390

Code:

apt policy nvidia-dkms-390 nvidia-driver-390
nvidia-dkms-390:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4
  Version table:
     390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/dtl131/nvidiaexp/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
nvidia-driver-390:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4
  Version table:
     390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/dtl131/nvidiaexp/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages

**markcodes** · August 16th, 2024

Okay, so I've made the change and it installed. This is the command output now:

Code:

nvidia-dkms-390:
  Installed: 390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4
  Candidate: 390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4
  Version table:
 *** 390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/dtl131/nvidiaexp/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
nvidia-driver-390:
  Installed: 390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4
  Candidate: 390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4
  Version table:
 *** 390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/dtl131/nvidiaexp/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

EDIT: After a reboot I only see a black screen.

**#&thj^%** · August 16th, 2024

I'm afraid to say that driver might only work on 22.04 and not 24.04.

At boot select Advanced Option and drop to root shell and remove the driver.

Code:

sudo apt autoremove --purge nvidia*

And reboot.

You may need to look at Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, for a lighter DE.

**markcodes** · August 16th, 2024

Oh ok, so if I install Xubuntu, will the driver work?

**#&thj^%** · August 16th, 2024

Originally Posted by markcodes

Oh ok, so if I install Xubuntu, will the driver work?

I'm doing that now, just to save us both time. (and frustration)

Will reply when I'm finished.

Right now I'm always on an unsupported system and using newer kernels and drivers:

Code:

nvidia-smi
Fri Aug 16 13:47:18 2024       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 560.31.02              Driver Version: 560.31.02      CUDA Version: 12.6     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 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  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 ...    Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   40C    P0              9W /   60W |      23MiB /   4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      1018      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                                   4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

**#&thj^%** · August 17th, 2024

@markcodes, Yes it dose work on jammy and kernel 6.8

Code:

 nvidia-smi && uname -r
Sat Aug 17 09:42:02 2024       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 390.157                Driver Version: 390.157                   |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GT 730M     Off  | 00000000:01:00.0 N/A |                  N/A |
| N/A   47C    P0    N/A /  N/A |    115MiB /   983MiB |     N/A      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0                    Not Supported                                       |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
6.8.0-40-generic

**deadflowr** · August 17th, 2024

Is that with the PPA?
I'd assume jammy could run fine if you use the GA kernel instead of the HWE kernel.
Since the GA kernel is 5.15.

**#&thj^%** · August 17th, 2024

Originally Posted by deadflowr

Is that with the PPA?
I'd assume jammy could run fine if you use the GA kernel instead of the HWE kernel.
Since the GA kernel is 5.15.

Yes with the PPA, and Xubuntu 22.04.
I found it worked on all kernels 6.26 thru 6.8.0-40-generic.

Code:

apt policy nvidia-driver-390
nvidia-driver-390:
  Installed: 390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4
  Candidate: 390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4
  Version table:
 *** 390.157-0ubuntu9~nvidiaexp4 500
        500 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/dtl131/nvidiaexp/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     390.157-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/restricted amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/restricted amd64 Packages
     390.147-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/restricted amd64 Packag

I was tied up with him for few hours yesterday, and is working on kernel 6.10, I was the only sucker using kernel 6.10 currently.
PLEASE DON'T USE>>>kernel 6.10 yet, it will fail.

BTW: I forgot to mention the "ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa" 390 will only work on kernel 6.2