(You can launch a terminal window like this: *Click*) Note (2): for unclear reasons, this PPA is using other names for its drivers in the list on its homepage, than the names in the official software sources of Ubuntu and Mint.Īn example makes this clear: the PPA has listed version 515 of the Nvidia driver on its homepage as nvidia-graphics-drivers-515, whereas the expected normal name would be nvidia-driver-515.īut when installing from the PPA, you still need to use the normal name of the driver! This is important to know when you're going to install it, because then you'll need to type the normal name in the terminal. For example: for version 515.48.07 the only relevant number is the main number 515. Note (1): the only relevant figure is the main number, not the minor numbers after the dot. Right now, it's only important that you find out if one of the available drivers is fit for your video card. Note: don't download the driver from the Nvidia website! Because later on in this how-to, you're going to use the PPA for downloading and installing the right driver. on driver version (up to date, but always check whether your particular card type is supported by a driver version, by looking on the tab supported products! You can search for a matching video driver in two ways:ī. The goal is, to check whether your video card can run on at least one of the driver versions that are available in the graphics-drivers PPA. Then you have to find out what's the right version of the Nvidia driver for your graphics card. At the moment of writing this (July, 2022), the latest one is version 515.ī. First visit the homepage of the graphics-drivers PPA, in order to see which versions of the non-free Nvidia driver it contains. However, if you apply this how-to exactly and fully, you can reduce those risks greatly.Ī. Those developers have adapted the Nvidia drivers to Ubuntu and Linux Mint, so that they should work well in these Linux distributions.īut using a PPA still carries some risks with it, that's unavoidable. This method has the biggest chance of success, because this PPA is in the hands of trustworthy and able developers with a good reputation. You can install a newer Nvidia driver by means of a non-official (and therefore slightly risky) software source: the graphics-drivers PPA. Installation by means of the graphics-drivers PPAġ. Purely manual installation of the new driver (discouraged) Installation by means of the graphics-drivers PPA

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