

It's better to remove older drivers in order to avoid conflicts. If you have mixed drivers like 3.90 and 3.96 this could cause a problem. The output should be something like: $ dpkg -get-selections | grep nvidia Manual installation of recommended or latest Check what drivers are installed dpkg -get-selections | grep nvidia Or you can add some repos in order to make it work again. Note: before it was working as: sudo apt install nvidia-390 Or for 3.96 sudo apt install nvidia-driver-396 Or you can install specific version by: sudo apt install nvidia-driver-390 Now you can install drivers by: sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

Modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001B80sv00001458sd00003702bc03sc00i00ĭriver : nvidia-396 - third-party non-freeĭriver : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free recommendedĭriver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin


In order to install latest driver you have two ways: using Ubuntu default repository or download drivers from Ubuntu site. If you have NVIDIA graphic card like GTX 1080 and you want to do something cool with the card you will need latest drivers.
