The ubuntu-drivers autoinstall command installs drivers that are appropriate for automatic installation including their dependencies, and the Nvidia driver will also be updated automatically when an update is available. The two graphics drivers can be installed alongside each other allowing the open source graphics driver to be used as a fallback alternative in case there is a problem using the proprietary graphics driver. When installing a proprietary graphics driver, it is not necessary to uninstall the open source graphics driver. I am using the nvidia-driver-390 driver version 390.48 in 18.04 which was installed with the following command: sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall | 0 24924 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 1MiB | | 0 5204 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 1MiB | | 0 4002 G /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 1MiB | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. This is my terminal output of Nvidia nvidia-smi If the output is negative for nouveau, then all is well with your installation. You can run the following command to check if your system is running on the open-source driver nouveau. It is also possible that the driver is not available in your system's driver database. If there is no output, then your installation has probably failed. You can check your installation status with the following command lsmod | grep nvidia Reboot your computer for the new driver to kick-in. (xxxx - is the Supported Version for your Nvidia driver)

OR sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-xxxxx Enter the following command to install the version of Nvidia graphics supported by your graphics card - sudo apt-get install nvidia-XXXX Install (and activate) the latest Nvidia graphics drivers.

Let us go ahead and add the graphics-driver PPA - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers If your graphic is supported, you can go ahead and remove all previously installed Nvidia drivers on your system. Verify that your graphics card is capable of running the latest

Visit the graphics drivers PPA homepage here and determine the Determine the latest version of Nvidia driver available for your graphics card

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