Below are links to the archived linux display driver download pages.. The objective is to install the nvidia drivers on ubuntu 18.04 bionic beaver linux. this article will discuss three methods of nvidia driver installation in the following order: automatic install using standard ubuntu repository automatic install using ppa repository to install nvidia beta drivers. Step 3b: download kernel driver file if you are using one of the distributions listed below you can simply download the appropriate file and install it. if you are using a distribution or kernel version that is not listed, or if you have an updated or non-default kernel, you must build the kernel module..
The old compiler is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by running, as root, sh ./nvidia-linux-x86_64-396.18.run. This tutorial will be showing you 2 ways to install nvidia graphics card driver on ubuntu 18.04. the first method uses graphical user interface (gui); the second method is done from the command line interface (cli). ubuntu comes with the open source nouveau driver which is included in the linux. Improved nvidia-bug-report.sh to check for kern.log which is the default kernel log-file location for many debian-based linux distributions. fixed a bug which could cause x servers that export a video driver abi earlier than 0.8 to crash when running x11 applications which call xrenderaddtraps()..
