How to install nvidia 430.40 driver on PopOS!?

[PrzemekSkw]

There's still broken 430.34 driver, why there's no update? Please tell me how to install last nvidia drivers, I don't want to migrate to another distro.

[mmstick]

The 430.40 driver did not fix the issue, so it was not pushed. If you still want to upgrade to 430.40, then you can do so by cloning the pop-os/pop repository and running ./scripts/apt add 430.40 instead the repository.

[PrzemekSkw]

@mmstick thanks for response. So 430.40 will still be broken on my graphics?In that case I have to still block to upgrade drivers (apt-hold nvidia) and use 430.26?

[OMGtechy]

@PrzemekSkw on a related note, if you want to install a driver manually you can do so.

The high level steps are:

1. Disable the current driver
2. Install the new one
3. Load the new driver

Here's each step fleshed out a bit (all of this is in the terminal):

Disable the current driver

First, you need to blacklist the nvidia modules by creating a file at /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf with the following content (you'll need to run your text editor as root or use sudo):

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf

blacklist nvidia_drm
blacklist nvidia
blacklist nvidia_modeset

Next you'll need to regenerate the initial root filesystem: sudo update-initramfs -u

Now reboot either as you would normally or by running the following command: reboot

Install the new one

Download the driver for your card here: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

Find the file and mark it as executable. For example, if the file is in your Downloads folder and is called NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.44.run:

cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.44.run

Install the driver: sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.44.run

Load the new driver

You need to remote the blacklist file you made earlier sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf

Regenerate the root filesystem: sudo update-initramfs -u

Reboot the system: reboot

Done!

You should have the new driver up and running now. You can double check this by running nvidia-smi:

$ nvidia-smi 
Mon Dec 16 03:55:51 2019       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 440.44       Driver Version: 440.44       CUDA Version: 10.2     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

Hope this is helpful to you!

[mmstick]

@OMGtechy Completely unnecessary, and fairly dangerous. It's much easier to add a staging branch.

git clone https://github.com/pop-os/pop
./scripts/apt add 440.44
sudo apt upgrade

[brs17]

The staging branch has been deleted and 440.44 will be released today.