This shows that the nvidia drivers are being used for graphics display.

Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_340 Run the previous lspci command again - lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12įlags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30

Check the installed driversĪfter the system starts successfully, you can check the information about the nvidia drivers and the graphics card as well. You can also go to 'System Settings > Hardware > Driver Manager' and install from there. Once it has finished, restart your system. It will automatically installed and setup everything. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa It has newer builds of the nvidia drivers. Setup the graphics-drivers ppa and install the driversįirst setup the graphics-drivers ppa. So I shall be installing the package named 'nvidia-340'. The site will tell you the current version of driver to use. Visit the following site and fill in the details of your graphics card and submit. If your card is old, then the latest nvidia drivers will not work it and cause a black blank screen after boot.įirst, find out the correct driver version for your card. Check the correct driver number firstĭon't just install the nvidia-current package hastily. The kernel driver in use is nouveau, which is the open source driver for using nvidia cards. In the next step we use this information to find out the correct driver. In the above output the gpu is GeForce 210. Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) Įxpansion ROM at 000c0000 Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) GT218 įlags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29 Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12Ġ1:00.0 VGA compatible controller : NVIDIA Corporation GT218 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 ) Run the lspci command as shown below and you would see some output. The first thing to do is find out your gpu chipset, so that the correct driver can be selected. Check and find out your graphics card model

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