ubuntu-drivers issue - nvidia 550 drivers not offered (although apt list shows the packages)

[smf9002]

When I run "sudo ubuntu-drivers list" the nvidia 550 drivers are not offered in the list. My video card definitely supported according to nvidia.

I can see the nvidia 550 packages are there when I try "apt list | grep 550" (I can see both 550.67 and 550.54 versions)

Is there a way to update the ubuntu-drivers to see the latest nvidia drivers?

If it is not possible to update ubuntu-drivers - what is the best alternative way to install the updated packages?

On a related note - I also get a warning with ubuntu-drivers - saying udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead is there a way to fix that?

Thanks

[TinyTim]

I'm curious what version of Kubuntu are you using? Sometimes even though Nvidia GPU may be able to use the that driver, does not mean that the OS can or will. If you could, mention the type of video card you use, and whether you are using Proprietary or nouveau drivers as well.

[Snowhog]

I'm curious what version of Kubuntu are you using?

Uh, he’s posting in 24.04, so….

[smf9002]

Yes Kubuntu 24.04, RTX 2070, proprietary drivers (not nouveau)

[shag00]

He is absolutely correct, I have exactly the same issue


This LTS release is as buggy as hell. Goes on to say that no proprietary drivers are in use as well.

[shag00]

An update to my previous post.

I have the 550 driver installed which I installed in 23.10 when it was available through the driver manager screen. During my upgrade to 24.04 my wine installation was deleted which is a pain though after reinstalling wine I find it reports that the driver is broken and suggests using the Nouveau driver. Not sure yet if this will have any effect on displaying or using any wine programs.

The 550 driver is necessary, among other things, to realise the improvements in the latest Handbrake release so not having it would be quite a step backwards (a lot of issues with H265 encoding).

[shag00]

Further update, so after 2 days of 24.04 and Nvidia 550 I would advise against it. There was some very strange behaviour with some games and issues with wine. I also began to get a very sluggish desktop with any commands taking a noticeably longer time to execute.

[spikederailed]

i have been using 550 drivers from the nvidia PPA since i updated. The 535 drivers from Canonical will allow me into a wayland session, though there ARE ISSUES. WIth the 550 drivers no chance for wayland, all screen flash a bunch(never in sync) till eventually it drops me to a black screen with only a cursor. I have to drop to a tty to get anything. In X11 i see really no difference between 535 and 550.

[smf9002]

I updated to the 550 drivers by installing the packages already available using this method:

https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/nvidi...s-installation


Install Kernel Headers
sudo apt install linux-modules-nvidia-550-generic

Validate Kernel Modules
sudo apt-cache policy linux-modules-nvidia-550-$(uname -r)

Install the user space drivers and driver libraries
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-550

reboot

Note: This works pretty well for X11 but not Wayland - it can boot but VERY, VERY slow (not usable) I'm thinking about trying to move to the PPA drivers as it looks like there is a fix (550.90.07) - I'll post another question about changing back and forth from Ubuntu/Kubuntu Provided to PPA and back.

I tried some of the fixes but I couldn't get Wayland to work reliably.

Thanks