The following tutorial will guide you through all steps required to install VGA NVIDIA driver on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus Linux. Let's start by detecting your NVIDIA VGA card model. Open terminal and enter a following linux command:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-latest-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-16-04-xenial-xerus
cyberaxe
Worked like a charm. Thanks!
Yudi Kurniawan
It keep asking me to insert the lubuntu disk, the error are like this : Media change: please insert the disc labeled
‘Lubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Xenial Xerus - Release amd64 (20170801)’
in the drive ‘/media/cdrom/’ and press [Enter]
Is there something wrong with my lubuntu version or something?
Please kindly help.
Lubos Rendek -> Yudi Kurniawan
Hi Yudi,
simply edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file and remove/comment lines starting with “deb cdrom:”. Save the file and enter command $ sudo apt-get update
Hope this helps…
Lubos
Yudi Kurniawan -> Lubos Rendek
It’s working, thanks for the quick reply Lubos 
Lubos Rendek -> Yudi Kurniawan
No problem…!!!
bahare
hello
when i run
lspci -vnn | grep VGA
i cant see my graphic card model in output.
i’m worried that there was a problem with my system.
could you help me please
theone
Maybe you have to add the following ppa:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
then you can install the driver
sudo apt-get install nvidia-390
Reflux -> theone
This was necessary on xenial
ciro santoro -> theone
thank you for the additional information
Rodrigo Principe
I use Mint 18 MATE; I have a nVidia 9500 GT; I have chosen nvidia-340 and after reboot, when I run >> lshw -c video It says: driver=nouveau. I also run >> lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3 | grep ‘in use’ And it says: Kernel driver in use: nouveau. Why!?
Jonathan Greenwood
Thanks for posting. Very useful information. I was using the nouveau driver with my Kubuntu 16.x version and found it to be slow and clunky. After reading through your post I have now managed to switch to using the native NVidia driver 340.102 for my GT218 [GeForce 210] graphics card and can see its using direct acceleration. Much more responsive. For anyone else out there I’m using a ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 motherboard with an AMD FX-8320 8 core 3.5GHz CPU and 32Gb DDR3 1333MHz RAM. I also found M. Mikowski’s Kubuntu Preferred Apps Google Sheet very useful.
Evgeniy Dolzhenko -> Jonathan Greenwood
Can confirm 340 driver works with GT218 [GeForce 210], thanks!
Austint30
~$ sudo apt install nvidia-319
[sudo] password for austin:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package nvidia-319 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'nvidia-319' has no installation candidate
Help?
I’m trying to install this driver which supports my GTX 760.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-319.32-driver
lamino91
After installing the driver, I get the infinite login problem. Is this due to Secure Boot? Is there a fix for that?
Drew -> lamino91
I followed these instructions and my drivers appeared to install correctly, however, after reboot, I got a GUI message “Could not configure your display device” and my keyboard wouldnt work to hit “OK”. I rebooted again and my machine froze before getting to GUI. Booting into Recovery mode caused the infinite login problem at Ubuntu’s login prompt. I had to boot into a previous kernel, and do a sudo apt-get remove nvidia-378, and then rebooted into my current kernel to regain control of my system.
I’m using Ubuntu 16.04.2 and kernel 4.8 with a Geforce 1050 on a Dell XPS 15
Daniel
Is there any real reason Nvidia doesn’t want to open up their driver?
I can only think about the spyware they’re hiding in there.
For someone who wants to be free Nvidia is never a good choice.
Scott Ricketts -> Daniel
Their drivers use patented code from other vendors they don’t have the ability to open source. The OpenGL implementation for example has stuff they’ve licensed. They’ve made this point now for literally decades since they first started making the only drivers worth using if you intend on playing games.
Elf55
Fixed my problem running an Ion chip under Ubuntu 16.04 after a system upgrade. Thanks.
Ignacio Julián García Díaz
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