Ask Ubuntu Asked by Yehuda on December 16, 2020
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 an ASUS TUF A15 with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660TI GPU. According to NVIDIA, the driver version for this GPU is 430. When I first installed Ubuntu, I installed 440. I’m now trying to correct that and install 430.
I ran sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-430, and then did a reboot. When I examined nvidia-smi, though, it still showed the 440:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 440.100 Driver Version: 440.100 CUDA Version: 10.2 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 166... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 55C P0 9W / N/A | 0MiB / 5944MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
What is the appropriate way of updating this driver?
In Ubuntu it doesn't matter what the NVIDIA website says. It matters what the results of ubuntu-drivers devices are. Ubuntu is bundled with a tool named ubuntu-drivers which detects and installs proprietary graphics driver packages. It detects proprietary graphics driver packages with ubuntu-drivers devices. The sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall command replaces all the unnecessary guesswork by automatically installing the correct proprietary graphics driver packages if there aren't any proprietary graphics packages currently installed.
Correct answer by karel on December 16, 2020
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