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Gabriel
Asked: 2019-04-09 04:18:26 +0800 CST

What's the correct Nvidia driver for my card+system?

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I'm attempting to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers for my card:

$ lspci | grep VGA               
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)

on my system:

$ lsb_release -a -u
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release:    18.04
Codename:   bionic

I've followed the steps outlined here:

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*  
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update

but the command

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-

shows several available versions of the driver:

nvidia-driver-390  nvidia-driver-396  nvidia-driver-410  nvidia-driver-415  nvidia-driver-418

I've seen the 396 version used several times, but intuitively I would install the latest version. How do I know which one I should install?

drivers nvidia graphics 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    As Geforce 9600 GT owner I can write the following.

    I'm using it with nvidia-340 driver on my 16.04 LTS, it still exists for all current releases. It is recommended on Nvidia Drivers site.

    The driver PPA are not needed. So you may remove the PPA with

    sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

    and install nvidia-340:

    sudo apt-get install nvidia-340
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