RoaringDog Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 What is the proper way to install the latest Nvidia drivers and CUDA stuff in Ubuntu? I'm currently running Ubuntu 16.04 with GTX 970. I installed 430 version using PPA but the Houdini keep crashing on startup. Then I downloaded the latest NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.40.run from Nvidia site and ran but the computer started having black screen after that. Now I purged the the drivers and rollbacked to 384. I need the latest nvidia drivers because I wanted to test the arnold GPU rendering. i would greatly appreciate any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucy Coleclough Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 I know it's different as I'm running debian but they are fairly similar. I get the drivers from the official repositories, in your case the ubuntu ones. For me there is just a package called nvidia-driver in synaptic which I download. That installs all the dependencies automatically, I then needed to get nvidia-opencl-common for opencl Also did you uninstall the open source nouveau drivers before installing the ppa? What does houdini log to the console as it crashed too? Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoaringDog Posted August 7, 2019 Author Share Posted August 7, 2019 (edited) Actually I managed to install the latest version by following this tutorial https://gist.github.com/wangruohui/df039f0dc434d6486f5d4d098aa52d07#install-nvidia-graphics-driver-via-runfile Installing manually worked. Thanks. Edited August 7, 2019 by RoaringDog Fixed it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunker Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 (edited) I tried so many ways to get my 1080ti to work with Ubuntu 18.04 but no luck (it worked a few months ago), anyone got it to work recently? or any other linux distro actually, I don't mind... found the solution here, in case anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GljujCLixzE I got the Drivers Version 430.40 working on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Edited August 10, 2019 by bunker solved issue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoaringDog Posted August 10, 2019 Author Share Posted August 10, 2019 Thanks Julien. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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