ubuntu1804 install the Nvidia driver

operating

Look Graphics

lspci | grep  N
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev a2)
07:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 Plus Bluetooth (rev 99)


ubuntu-drivers devices
lshw -numeric -C display

Driver download
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
http://www.nvidia.cn/Download/driverResults.aspx/156091/cn

Delete the original drive

 sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia*


#sudo apt-get purge bumblebee* bbswitch-dkms

Disable nouveau driver

sudo bash -c "echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf
sudo bash -c "echo options nouveau modeset=0 >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf"

To see whether the success of open source driver is disabled

cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

Disable nouveau into force

 sudo update-initramfs -u 

Restart

reboot


lsmod | grep nouveau
＃看是否成功

Obtain the appropriate kernel

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#system-requirements

$ apt-get install linux-source  gcc
$ apt-get install linux-headers-4.15.0-38-generic

$cat /proc/version

Enter the command line operation

重启成功后打开终端，输入如下命令：sudo telinit 3。然后按快捷键：CTRL+ALT+F1 进入字符界面，输入用户名和密码，然后登录系统，进入我们保存下载 NVIDIA 驱动的目录，默认是：Downloads/ 目录，cd Downloads/，然后执行：bash NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.43.bin。注意：NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.43.bin 要根据你下载的驱动文件的名字相应改动。

#installation

$ sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.66.run 
$ sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-410.66.run 

an examination

$ nvidia-smi