1 How can I uninstall a nvidia driver completely ? 完全卸载驱动

Solution 1

sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*

solution 2

sudo apt-get remove --purge '^nvidia-.*'
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
echo 'nouveau' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

install Nvidia Driver by Commend Line 命令行安装驱动

1.卸载Nvidia低版本显卡驱动

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

2.把显卡驱动加入PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get update

3.查找显卡驱动最新的版本号
查找并安装最新驱动

sudo apt-cache search nvidia

4 采用apt-get命令在终端安装：

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-410  && sudo reboot

~~sudo apt-get install nvidia-xxx nvidia-settings nvidia-prime~~

xxx为版本号，例如： nvidia-390

5.重启系统并验证
说三遍： reboot reboot reboot

2How to install NVIDIA.run?

more details: http://nemesisdesign.net/blog/coding/how-reinstall-nvidia-drivers-linux-ubuntu/

3What is the correct version of CUDA for my nvidia driver?

4CUDA compute capability requirements

5How to find out which NVIDIA GPU I have

when nvidia-smi doesn't show the NVIDIA GPU version detail information like this:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 375.26                 Driver Version: 375.26                    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Graphics Device     Off  | 0000:01:00.0     Off |                  N/A |
| 26%   47C    P0    59W / 250W |      0MiB / 12187MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  Graphics Device     Off  | 0000:03:00.0     Off |                  N/A |
|  0%   40C    P0    56W / 250W |      0MiB / 12189MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

please update your PCI ID database with:

sudo update-pciids

And use the following command in your terminal:

lspci -nn | grep '\[03'

You will see the model name of your graphic card. If it's ambiguous, you could search the PCI ID (something like [10de:11bc]) on the Internet for the corrent model name

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