Installing nvidia Drivers (Deprecated)

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This was by far more difficult than it needed to be.  Nouveau has to be blacklisted..
Some of this taken from Emil’s blog (thanks Emil)

1. Driver installation

  1. Go the the Nvidia’s driver homepage and download the appropriate package for your gpu. http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
  2. Open a terminal: ctrl + alt + t
  3. $sudo apt-get install build-essential
  4. sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
    blacklist nouveau
    options nouveau modeset=0
    # lbm-nouveau  #optional – havent tried with this

Save and close the file.

$sudo update-initramfs -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-31-generic
$sudo service nouveau stop
  1. Press ctrl + alt+ F1 to enter the console.
  2. Go to the directory where your driver is located and run: $chmod a+x .
  3. $ sudo service lightdm stop
  4. Install the drivers by: $sudo bash NVIDIA-*run –no-opengl-files
  5. You might get an error during the installation but continue if possible.
  6. I answered no to installing nVidia drivers under X.  Apparently you can enable this later if you want by running nvidia-xconfig
  7. Installation should be complete. Now check if device nodes are present:
  8. Check if /dev/nvidia* files exist. If they don’t, do:  (this didnt work for me)
    $ sudo modprobe nvidia
  9. Reboot computer
  10. apt-cache search nvidia | grep -P ‘^nvidia-[0-9]+\s’
    this gave me:

    nvidia-173 - NVIDIA legacy binary driver - version 173.14.39
nvidia-310 - Transitional package for nvidia-310
nvidia-319 - Transitional package for nvidia-319
nvidia-304 - NVIDIA legacy binary driver - version 304.132
nvidia-331 - Transitional package for nvidia-331
nvidia-340 - NVIDIA binary driver - version 340.98
nvidia-346 - Transitional package for nvidia-346
nvidia-352 - Transitional package for nvidia-367
nvidia-367 - NVIDIA binary driver - version 367.57
  11.  nvidia-smi+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 375.20 Driver Version: 375.20 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 GTX 1060 Off | 0000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 47C P0 25W / N/A | 0MiB / 3045MiB | 0% Default |

| Processes: GPU Memory |
|GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
| No running processes found |
  12. $ nvidia-debugdump -l
    Found 1 NVIDIA devices
    Device ID: 0
    Device name: GeForce GTX 1060
    GPU internal ID: GPU-00c74f5d-66d2-6f5b-9fcc-1614ac8b8db3 

Some more info here: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/878117/cuda-setup-and-installation/-solved-titan-x-for-cuda-7-5-login-loop-error-ubuntu-14-04-/

 

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