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Asked: 2018-01-05 09:52:51 +0800 CST

Making Liquorix default kernel with native NVIDIA drivers for Ubuntu 16.04 for enhanced gaming and realtime functionality

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I've been interested in running the Liquorix kernel for gaming and realtime performance enhancements. It's a pretty straight foward installation, but I found that it was incompatible with NVIDIA drivers.

Original reference: here (archive)

I was hitting the following errors:

ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-4.14.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64 is not supported 
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.14.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64 (x86_64) 
Consult /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.60/build/make.log for more information. 
ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-4.14.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64 is not supported 
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.14.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64 (x86_64) 
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-384/384.90/build/make.log for more information.
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  1. Best Answer

    As one will note in my thread above, there was a workable suggestion to solve this and so I wanted to share it with the community here since it's a pretty seamless solution and everything is working quite well:

    Apparently there's a problem with nvidia-384 and by going to a PPA with a higher version that is well taken care of, the issue is resolved. These are the steps to install both the liquorix kernel and nvidia-387:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:damentz/liquorix && sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install linux-image-liquorix-amd64 linux-headers-liquorix-amd64 
sudo apt-get install nvidia-387

    This may work with newer versions of Ubuntu, but I've not tested it. Your mileage may vary...

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