Installing Nvidia Proprietary Driver 343 On Ubuntu (Unity)/Linux Mint (Cinnamon) X64

When I installed mint today from cd, I had to use the save-mode because of the nvidia card. So I was aware I had to change driver after install.

Right after install I checked these '10 thing to first do after install'.
http://itsfoss.com/things-to-do-afte...mint-16-petra/
I did these
Improve battery life
Change screensaver timing
Install RAR

Then I checked the driver manager to deal with the graphic driver. I tried all 3 in the driver manager, but with each mint crashes with this message right after login.

Quote:
cinnamon just crashed you are currently running in Fallback Mode
It asks if I want to restart, click 'yes' and it just refreshes the screen with the same message. click 'no' the message goes away but cinnamon does not work.

So I don't know if its crashing because of the driver or because of those things I changed after the install.

I googled some and this issue is all over linux forums, but I can't find a solution anywhere.

Hi,
These NVIDIA products are real nightmares. I recently downloaded a copy a sabayon linux for my desktop.
The live dvd booted with the following error message throughout the screen

Quote:
[ 3129.434776] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
[ 3129.434855] NVRM: NVIDIA init module failed!
[ 3129.479276] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a GPU installed in this system is
NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 304.xx Legacy drivers. Please
NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
NVRM: information. The 340.58 NVIDIA driver will ignore
NVRM: this GPU. Continuing probe...
[ 3129.479285] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter found!
[ 3129.479362] NVRM: NVIDIA init module failed!
[ 3129.519879] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a GPU installed in this system is
NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 304.xx Legacy drivers. Please
NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
NVRM: information. The 340.58 NVIDIA driver will ignore
NVRM: this GPU. Continuing probe...
However after a long time it started up properly. After installing the os I found that the problem still persists. Firtsly it took about 10 mins or so to boot. And then apart from terminal 7 (which is the graphical terminal) all other terminals shows the above output. It seems like it has fallen through an infinite loop. I tried downloading some drivers from the nvidia site but simply could not install them because it mandates the X to stop working. If I do so I won't be able to install it from other terminals.

I have attached the output of "dmesg".
Any help is appreciated.

new computer from boxes, does not install nvidia driver
Booted from USB then ran YaST, I am new with OpenSuse but have two times before installed OpenSuse on fresh HDD's and Nvidia cards with ease.

The symptoms are like when I switched from a GTX 640 that only has mother board power to the GTX 750 Ti and needed power that I did not connect at first. Until I added extra power to the graphics card I only got a single low res VGA output. This 750 card definitely has power but still can only provide single low res to VGA output.

Terminal (dmesg) ......The NVIDIA GPU 0000:01:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:1380)installed in this system is not supported by the 304.125 NVIDIA Linux driver release. Please see 'Appendix A - supported NVIDIA GPU Products' in this release's README, available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. .... None of the VVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized!

Terminal (uname -r) 3.16.7-21 -default [OpenSuse version]

Terminal (/sbin/lspci) VGA Compatible controller: Nvidia Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev 02)

have tried:
1. different power cables to graphic card
2. two GTX 750 Ti cards, neither work.
3. re-installed OpenSuse
4. removed card and mother board can run two monitors in high res. DVI cables are new and work. Monitors (4) are all AOC i2367 and working.

5. added to repository 'bumblebee' which contains NVIDIA drivers and tried rebooting. I am not good at repositories yet. However, I didn't need to do this twice before on new installs with NVIDIA cards.

6. downloaded from www.geforce.com file:///home/shark/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.72(1).run but when I run it error, "The file /home/shark/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.72(3).run was opened with UTF-8 encoding but contained invalid characters."It is set to read-only mode, as saving might destroy its content.
Either reopen the file with the correct encoding chosen or enable the read-write mode again in the menu to be able to edit it."

Hardware list: Asus H81M-E motherboard, i5 4460 CPU, 550W power, Asus GeForce GTX 750 Ti graphic card,

Note: two graphic cards on hand, both work in another OpenSuse computer.

I am just learning Linux so I need simple step by step instructions.

Thank you in advance.

Ten years on Linux and this has me stumped.
So I'm putting it in the Newbie thread.

I pulled an Nvidia card out of my box: I suspected a hardware failure with that.

The gear on the motherboard is Intel. An Intel driver is present, and it seems - judging from the logs - to be loading.

I commented out a lot of xorg.conf. There were things in there to help me get my resolution right.
Gone now, but I purged the Nvidia driver anyway.
( sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia )

But I have no GUI.
The login screen appears as expected, mouse and keyboard work.
But when I log into the GUI I get only wallpaper, no menus nor bars nor buttons, nor anything on a right-click.

FWIW I had been using Metacity until now, rather than the latest Gnome desktop.

A CD-bootable Ubuntu still works fine in this box tonight: that makes me suppose I have eliminated any hardware problems.

Any tips would be gratefully accepted.

I think I have seen advice suggesting that a person should just delete lots of desktop config files in a situation such as this. But to me that seems wrong - or maybe hasty.

So I thought I'd ask first.

Many thanks for any help.

Hello everyone im new here and it is my first post, im using slackware 14.1 x64 on an alienware m11xR2 and im havin trouble with Nvidia drivers.

I tried binary and package installations with bumblebee.

Nothing works, GLX doesn't work and after making "nvidia-xconfig" X doesn't start.

I remove the xorg.conf and then X starts but without nvidia and GLX.

Can someone help me ?

Oh, and im french so sorry for my bad english.

These instructions originate from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140...nvidia-drivers, but I modified them slightly for my desktop environment (64-bit HP Envy Phoenix 810-135qe w/Intel i7-4770 and HP ZR2440w monitor, nVidia GeForce GTX645, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 w/Gnome3).

The following procedures replace the nouveau drivers with kmod-nvidia drivers from ElRepo.

Install the repository ElRepo from: http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php

Install the package nvidia-detect from within Applications>SystemTools>Software

From within the terminal, enter the command nvidia-detect.
Example:
[anthony@hp810135qe ~]$ nvidia-detect
Output is...
Probing for supported NVIDIA devices...
[10de:11c4] NVIDIA Corporation GK106 [GeForce GTX 645 OEM]
This device requires the current 346.59 NVIDIA driver kmod-nvidia

For my system the following software packages will apply (yours maybe slightly different, the key is to note the ###.## version identified for your system using nvidia-detect as explained above): kmod-nvidia-346.59-1.el7.elrepo (64-bit), nvidia-x11-drv-32bit-346.59-1.el7.elrepo (64-bit), nvidia-x11-drv-346.59-1.el7.elrepo (64-bit)

Now do the following steps in the sequence indicated:

1. Disable X Windows

a) open a terminal and "su" or "sudo -i"

b) ln -fs /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target

Note: Another way to disable X Windows is to do the following from within the Terminal # systemctl set-default multi-user.target

To later change back to booting into graphical mode, substitute 'graphical.target' for 'multi-user.target' in the above commands.

c) reboot

2. Remove Nouveau

a) rpm -e xorg-x11-drivers xorg-x11-drv-nouveau

Note: Another way to remove Nouveau is to do the following from within the Terminal

$ yum remove xorg-x11-drivers xorg-x11-drv-nouveau xorg-x11-glamor

See http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia which discusses that glamor still causes a conflict with nVidia in RHEL 7

3. Blacklist Nouveau

a) edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and add line:

blacklist nouveau

Note: A way to edit this file is by doing the following:

# vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
(use INSERT key to make changes in vi; add the line

blacklist nouveau

Hit Esc key to escape INSERT mode, then hit SHIFT Z Z to save and exit with the changes. Hitting :q ENTER leaves vi without saving changes.

b) edit /etc/default/grub and append to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX:

rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau

Note: A way to edit this file is by doing the following:

# vi /etc/default/grub and append to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX:
(use INSERT key to make changes in vi; add the line

rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau

Hit Esc key to escape INSERT mode, then hit SHIFT Z Z to save and exit with the changes. Hitting :q ENTER leaves vi without saving changes.

IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU HAVE AN ENCRYPTED BOOTUP DRIVE -

If you have an encrypted root drive, remove "rhgb" from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX. This will allow you to interact with the encryption passphrase prompt, since Plymouth doesn't seem to run without a framebuffer friendly video driver loaded. IF YOU DON'T THIS, WHEN YOU BOOTUP YOU WILL GET STUCK AT A BLINKING CURSOR AND BLACKSCREEN THAT HAS THE FOLLOWING ERROR MESSAGES:


[5.757276] scsi 7:0:0:0: alua: not attached
[5.759625] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdg] no caching made page found
[5.759668] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdg] assuming drive cache: write through

WHEN THIS HAPPENS IT MEANS PLYMOUTH IS NOT ABLE TO SHOW YOU THE PROMPT FOR ENTERING THE PASSPHRASE FOR THE ENCRYPTED DRIVES. WITHOUT THE PROMPT THE SYSTEM CAN'T ACCEPT THE PASSPHRASE AND YOU ARE STUCK. IF THIS HAPPENS TO YOU, YOU CAN DO CTRL-ALT-DELETE TO REBOOT - THIS ALLOWS YOU TO HIT 'e' AT THE KERNEL LINE IN GRUB TERMINAL TO EDIT (MOST LIKELY THE TOP KERNEL) AND THEN REMOVE 'rhgb' (which stands for Red Hat Graphical Bootsplashcreen or something like that). WHEN DONE HIT THE KEYS 'CTRL X' TO REBOOT - YOU'LL THEN SEE TEXT MESSAGES SCROLLING AND GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENTER THE PASSPHRASE. ENTER THE PASSPHRASE AND YOU SHOULD BE GOOD TO GO.

4. Reconfigure the grub.cfg files

Two options for booting nowadays are BIOS and EFI

-If you chose BIOS boot run this command:
# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Note: I also have this one being auto-updated-configured in my system (?why? It's EFI).

-If EFI boot on CentOS:
# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg

-If EFI boot on RHEL:
# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.cfg
Note: Mine is an EFI system. But I did both this and the BIOS grub.cfg above since it too is being updated by RHEL updates concurrently with the EFI grub.cfg

5. Reboot and Install NVidia Driver - I use ElRepo's kmod-nvidia for this step.

Steps by me to install ElRepo's kmod-nvidia (You should still be in Text mode at this time):

If in multi-user.target mode (text, runlevel 3), then do the following
$ su -
enter root password
# yum install kmod-nvidia - version from above
# yum install nvidia-x11-drv-32bit - version from above (this is for 32bit compatibility)
# yum install nvidia-x11-drv - version from above (this is for Open GL X11 display driver and to be done if kmod didn't already include doing it with the kmod-nvidia installation above)
# exit
$

If still in graphics.target mode (you shouldn't be but if you are) (GUI, runlevel 5),
Use Applications > Software > kmod-nvidia - version from above
Install kmod-nvidia - version from above
Install nvidia-x11-drv-32bit - version from above (this is for 32bit compatibility)
Install nvidia-x11-drv - version from above (this is for Open GL X11 display driver)

6. At this point rebuild initramfs. This recreates initrd w/o nouveau. The existing initrd still has the embedded nouveau drivers if this step is not performed) :

Back up the current initramfs keeping nouveau
# mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
Build the new one without nouveau
# dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

7. Re-Enable X Windows

# systemctl set-default graphical.target

8. Reboot

If you have an encrypted bootup drive, when you bootup you may notice that Plymouth doesn't look so good with its text in a lower resolution and you'll see lines of text scrolling until you get to a stopped cursor waiting for you to enter the passphrase to unencrypt your drive. Maybe eventually there'll be a solution for this to keep things moving with a graphical bootsplash all throughout. Until then, this is a minor inconvenience for me.

I just started using Linux Mint 17.1 and so far I like it. I just have one small problem with it, all the print goes out of focus unless the mouse is hovering over it. This just started happening a couple days ago. I know it's my fault, as my 2 year old got hold of the keyboard for 10 minutes before I realized what it was she was playing with. It seems that all the icons, windows boarders, pictures, and such are not effected, just the text. Anyway to correct this blurriness?
Jonnynitro138

Okay I found the problem is my nvidia driver from this link https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...s/+bug/1307236
What I have to do is delete .nvidia-settings-rc, but I cannot find it. Where is this file?

Hey everybody!
I am (quite) new to the world of linux, but have been trying out a few of the most basic distros (ubuntu-based ones).
I am now using elementary os luna, and i have a problem with installing my nvidia drivers.
I have really been googling my ass off to find this on my own, but without any results that actually worked for me.
So, i have a HP Envy laptop, with a geforce gt 740m, and i have searched nvidias homepage to find out that the up-to-date driver for me would be the 346 driver. I tried it on Linux mint xfce, and i successfully installed it. I had to add the xorg ppa repository of course, and updated it as well, but when i do the same procedure here on my elementary os, i cant reach the login screen after my reboot.

When i use the lspci -vnn command in the terminal, i get this info on my graphics driver:

01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GK208M [GeForce GT 740M] [10de:1292] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1961]
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16
Memory at d2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 4000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at b2000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb

I really hope someone knows how to fix my problem.
Thanks in advance!
/Andreas

Hey just signed up after lurking for a bit.

I'm using Mint 17.1 and following the advice in this post to solve my missing menu problem which worked fine.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5/#post4234891

But now after using Code:

mv ~/.config ~/.config.org

my FPS in a steam game went down from 70 to 30.

I did some re-installations in my package manager, but the FPS still sucks.

Quote:
Commit Log for Mon Mar 23 16:15:01 2015


Completely removed the following packages:
nvidia-340
nvidia-settings
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

Removed the following packages:
xserver-xorg-video-all
Quote:
Commit Log for Mon Mar 23 16:28:01 2015


Installed the following packages:
nvidia-340 (340.76-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1)
nvidia-settings (346.47-0ubuntu1~xedgers14.04.1)
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (1:1.0.11+git20141030.3fb97d78-0ubuntu0sarvatt~trusty2)
Quote:
Commit Log for Mon Mar 23 16:40:46 2015


Reinstalled the following packages:
steam-launcher (1.0.0.47)
I also re-downloaded the game as well to make sure it set a new configuration file if it needed to.

Hi folks,

I'm trying to install the drivers for my "legacy" nvidia graphics card.
I've downloaded the file from nvidia's website to install the driver, but during the process I get this message...

Kernel header file ' /lib/modules/3.13.0-37-generic/build/include/linux/version.h ' does not exist .

The most likely reason is the kernel source files in ' /lib/modules/3.13.0-37-generic/build ' have not been configured.

Anyone know how to configure this file? I've been working on this for a few days now...it's getting old!

Thanks for your help.

Joe