[SOLVED] NVidia driver Install

[MoonRise]

OK, so far so good on the install of Neon on my system. I'm pleased so far. However, what is the best way to install the NVidia driver? I used Kubuntu's driver manager before but I guess not a good idea to install that on KDE Neon. Thanks in advance!

[claydoh]

if you know which driver you need, just install the appropriate package

there is nothing wrong with using the driver manager in Neon, if it (the gui) works for you . If not, the command line for it works fine.

[MoonRise]

Thanks!

[MoonRise]

OK, been a long time since I've done manual installs but after some searching I was able to. I first ran in Konsole

sudo ubuntu-drivers devices

. Then after agreeing with what I saw there I ran

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

After that, All seemed well. Initially I did it myself and choose the wrong driver which had me stuck at 1024x768 but after an uninstall and searching the above worked wonderfully.

So, now I can say I'm on KDE Neon. Seems smooth. I'll give it a week to see how it goes.



EDIT: Fixed above code lines

[MoonRise]

OK, so after about 2 weeks on Neon with crashes with KWIN I've always felt it was the NVidia driver. I had to replace NEON with MAUI tracking another issue. So, I ran Maui a while with the generic NVidia driver and all worked rather well. No corruption of Windows Decoration and no KWIN crashes. Well, due to issues on Minecraft not starting I installed NVidia's driver (one that stated recommended). It was a feeling it was due to the graphics driver as to why I went that route. Minecraft now happy. So, after that install, KWIN crashes are back as well as the Windows Decoration corruption. I'm convinced its the driver but why I really don't know. Will look further as I can.

[oshunluvr]

I have trouble of various sorts since upgrading to 16.04 and/or Neon with all the nvidia drivers later than 340.

I keep hoping an update will solve it, but no luck so far.

[MoonRise]

I've been wondering if I should go to 304 and see what's what there. My card is an older card and I'm afraid these newer drivers are just not compatible.