Nick Shu. A Fool in the Making

New NVIDIA Card on Linux

 
  • Aug 04, 2020

There are a few things that need to be done when first installing a new Linux system on a built PC. One problem that I had a bit was with regards to the monitors and the colors. When I first built a PC, with a new RTX 2070, it couldn’t handle more than 1 monitor, nor could it use the Night Color/Light (or Redshift) options until I installed the correct drivers, which I learned from Ashley Tharp’s post. Prior to reading such post, nothing was working in either Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Kubuntu 18.04, Kubuntu 20.04, Pop_OS 20.04.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

First, get the current version of the pci.ids

sudo update-pciids

Next, figure out what graphics card you have:

lspci -nn | grep 'VGA'

My output is

7:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU106 [GeForce RTX 2070 Rev. A] [10de:1f07]

So next go get the new drivers from the NVIDIA website

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

In my case, I placed the following parameters

Keys Parameters
Product Type GeForce
Product Series GeForce RTX 20 Series
Product GeForce RTX 2070
Operating System Linux 64-bit
Download Type Linux Long Lived
Language English (US`)

And then I downloaded the respective *.run file.

Next, I installed some prerequisites

sudo apt install gcc make cmake

Next, go to where you downloaded the file, make it executable, and then run it

sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57.run
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57.run

Select the following:

  1. An alternate method of installing the NVIDIA driver was detected. (This is usually a package provided by your distributor.) A driver installed via that method may integrate better with your system than a driver installed by nvidia-installer. Please review the message provided by the maintainer of this alternate installation method and decide how to proceed:
    • Continue installation
  2. Install NVIDIA’s 32-bit compatibility libraries?
    • Yes
  3. WARNING: Unable to determine the path to install the libglvnd EGL vendor library config files. Check that you have pkg-config and the libglvnd development libraries installed, or specify a path with –glvnd-egl-config-path
    • OK
  4. Would you like to run the nvidia-xconfig utility to automatically update your X configuration file so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used when you restart X? Any pre-existing X configuration file will be backed up.
    • Yes
  5. Your X configuration file has been successfully updated. Installation of the NVIDIA Accelearated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 (version: 450.57) is now complete.
    • OK
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