

You can either rely on automatic detection, which will install the driver that is considered the best match for your hardware: Installing the drivers for generic use (e.g. You should see a list such as the following: The ubuntu-drivers tool is recommended if your computer uses Secure Boot, since it always tries to install signed drivers which are known to work with Secure Boot.Ĭheck the available drivers for your hardware The ubuntu-drivers tool relies on the same logic as the "Additional Drivers" graphical tool, and allow more flexibility on desktops and on servers. The recommended way (ubuntu-drivers tool) The Fabric Manager and NSCQ library are only available with the ERDs or -server driver versions.

You can read more about these drivers here: Īdditionally, we package the NVIDIA Fabric Manager and the NVIDIA Switch Configuration and Query (NSCQ) Library, which you will only need if you have NVswitch hardware. Their packages can be recognised by the -server suffix. UDA (Unified Driver Architecture) drivers - which are recommended for the generic desktop use, and which you can also find here: ĮRD (Enterprise Ready Drivers) - which are recommended on servers, and for computing tasks. Transitional packages to new driver branches.Switching between pre-compiled and DKMS modules.Installing Fabric Manager and the NVSwitch Configuration and Query library.Installing the user-space drivers and the driver libraries.Building your own kernel modules using the NVIDIA DKMS package.Installing the pre-compiled NVIDIA modules for your kernel.Installing the drivers on servers and/or for computing purposes.Installing the drivers for generic use (e.g.Check the available drivers for your hardware.

The recommended way (ubuntu-drivers tool).Which version of graphic driver I am using currently ? If I am not using nVidia's driver then how can I use nVidia's driver.

Expansion ROM at fe780000 Ġ1:00.1 Audio device : NVIDIA Corporation GF104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) Memory at d4000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) Memory at d8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device įlags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 53 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller : NVIDIA Corporation GF104 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 ) But in Ubuntu's Additional Drivers there is no such driver rather it marks the Nouveau driver. Now in Nvidia X server setting showing the driver version is 346.35. I have installed latest nVidia graphic driver via this PPA "xorg-edgers/ppa".
