[SOLVED] Installation of Nvidia drivers 470 metapackage does not work with card GeForce GT 710

[Hendrixx]

Hi all,

Does anyone have the nvidia drivers installed on kubuntu 24.04, or know which version of them works correctly?

I have tried two of the methods shown here https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu...ietary-driver/

sudo lshw -C display
  *-display                
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GK208B [GeForce GT 710].
       manufacturer: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus information: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
       configuration: depth=32 driver=nouveau latency=0 resolution=1920,1080
       resources: irq:31 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

Using the GUI method, it advises me to install the nvidia-driver-470 metapackage (tried) but it didn't work for me.

Neither did the second method from CLI installing the same version:

  sudo apt install nvidia-driver-470 nvidia-dkms-470

The installation runs and finishes normally, but once the system reboots, after the grub startup the screen goes black and that's it. I have tried with the two kernels that my system currently has and with both of them the same thing happens. The only option I have left is to enter a root console, uninstall nvidia completely and reboot again with the noveau driver.
In previous versions of Kubuntu I have always had the nvidia drivers installed, but since this version (24.04 LTS) I have not been able to get them to work.

Any suggestions on this matter will be welcome. Thanks in advance.

[TinyTim]

ubuntu-drivers devices
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall <it will install recommended driver automatically
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-470 <for specific driver
If your graphics card is Fermi Based .......
... I read in a Nvidia forum that the Fermi Based 710 card will not work with 470, you will need to use 390 drivers (without Wayland). I tend to believe that to be the case. However, if it is a Kepler core it will work with 470 drivers. (It is possible that your card is not supported by Nvidia proprietary on the 24.04 kernel 6.8)
-Note: I have taken a interest in "learning" Nvidia due to the not no simple answers, plus I have 2 Nvidia GPU's. (That is also the reason I encourage people to wait for veteran contributors)

[Hendrixx]

ubuntu-drivers devices
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall <it will install recommended driver automatically
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-470 <for specific driver
If your graphics card is Fermi Based .......
... I read in a Nvidia forum that the Fermi Based 710 card will not work with 470, you will need to use 390 drivers (without Wayland). I tend to believe that to be the case. However, if it is a Kepler core it will work with 470 drivers. (It is possible that your card is not supported by Nvidia proprietary on the 24.04 kernel 6.8)
-Note: I have taken a interest in "learning" Nvidia due to the not no simple answers, plus I have 2 Nvidia GPU's. (That is also the reason I encourage people to wait for veteran contributors)

Thank you for your reply. There is useful information that I did not know.

A few months ago when I did the first clean install of version 24.04 the next thing I tried to do was to install the nvidia driver with the method you mention:

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

It installed version 470, which was the recommended version, but after the reboot it didn't work. I reinstalled again and got the Noveau driver working.

On the nvidia website, searching by Linux system, card model and other data also recommends the manual download of the 470 version.
From your response I have been able to confirm that my card it is a Kepler core, but it still didn't work, so it is possible that the cause is what you mention about kernel version and support.

uname -r
6.8.0-49-generic

Noveau does not work badly at all, but more often than desirable I have problems (especially with the web browser) that freezes and sometimes even extends to the entire Plasma, forcing me to close the session because it becomes unusable, something that did not happen before in previous versions of Kubuntu and Nvidia drivers installed.

Maybe manually install the 390 version downloaded from the Nvidia website, but I suspect it won't work. However, I would be grateful for any suggestions in this regard.

[TinyTim]

Using this command should show the drivers available, and the recommended driver.
ubuntu-drivers devices
Nvidia 390 driver does not work with kernel 6.5 and above, Nvidia no longer supports it. The 470 driver should work with your card. I am not able to test any of this (it could be a bug).
Was the DKMS on and working when you installed the driver or upgraded? Are you using Wayland or X11?
Nvidia not allowing their source code to be known is the reason for all of these problems. Plus the articles written about it in the Nvidia forums could fill a congressional library, making problems difficult to pinpoint. I did not upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04 just for the reasons you are experiencing. My GPU, Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 Ti., I upgraded once and had to reinstall the entire system, because of Nvidia and DKMS was turned off. I will continue to search for a solution and exchange info with you, but my conclusion on this matter, is to not use Nvidia GPU's. ---Sorry I am not able to give a clear solution to this problem.

[Hendrixx]

Using this command should show the drivers available, and the recommended driver.
ubuntu-drivers devices
Nvidia 390 driver does not work with kernel 6.5 and above, Nvidia no longer supports it. The 470 driver should work with your card. I am not able to test any of this (it could be a bug).
Was the DKMS on and working when you installed the driver or upgraded? Are you using Wayland or X11?
Nvidia not allowing their source code to be known is the reason for all of these problems. Plus the articles written about it in the Nvidia forums could fill a congressional library, making problems difficult to pinpoint. I did not upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04 just for the reasons you are experiencing. My GPU, Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 Ti., I upgraded once and had to reinstall the entire system, because of Nvidia and DKMS was turned off. I will continue to search for a solution and exchange info with you, but my conclusion on this matter, is to not use Nvidia GPU's. (unless you wanted to use something like Cinnamon Mint (maintains Nvidia well) but handles graphics moderately (fonts terribly) compared to Kubuntu) *IF you can get the Nvidia proprietary driver to work. ---Sorry I am not able to give a clear solution to this problem.

Searching for information about wayland and DKMS I came to this thread and in it is, at least in my case, the key to why it did not work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/com...splaygraphics/

As you will see, it is a simple variable in the grub file that causes the screen to go black or boot normally.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet'  # OR ''

And updating grub BEFORE rebooting.

I don't think it's due to the obsolescence of the cards because there are more modern ones with the same problem, or if it's NVDIA or who, but in previous versions of Kubuntu I think I've never encountered this kind of problems to install these drivers.

I don't know what your specific problem is but maybe you should also take a look at this guide and give it a try. I hope it will help you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs..._nvidia_guide/

[TinyTim]

I had read about "removing splash and quiet" before but I forgot (old age). So it is not just Nvidia but also AMD with this issue which makes me wonder. Also, you said you were having issues with your browser video playing, per chance do you have "play DRM content" switched off? (I have issues with Firefox "snap", the bookmarks are slow in opening and stutter)

[Hendrixx]

I had read about "removing splash and quiet" before but I forgot (old age). So it is not just Nvidia but also AMD with this issue which makes me wonder. Also, you said you were having issues with your browser video playing, per chance do you have "play DRM content" switched off? (I have issues with Firefox "snap", the bookmarks are slow in opening and stutter)

In previous versions of Kubuntu I had already installed Firefox with snap and DRM enabled and disabled and I didn't experience these freezing problems (maybe it only happens in certain web pages that have some feature) but It's something that has started to happen with version 24.04 (also in other browsers, not only Firefox) but I don't know if it's due to the Novueau driver or what.

Now with NVIDIA running I will observe if it still happens or not.