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putting drivers in /lib/modules

Asked by Isaac Flores

I have an nvidia 1070 card. I thought I'd been using the proprietary driver version 430-14, but under the Additional Drivers tab in Software & Updates it only shows nvidia-driver-390 and X.Org X server. How do I move 430 so it shows up there? Every once in a while an update resets the driver I'm using and I'd prefer picking it from the menu instead of going thru command line every time.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

There is no package for nvidia-430 in the Ubuntu repositories (yet), but there are some PPAs. Maybe using one of them helps.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=nvidia-graphics-drivers-430

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Does the 3D work under the 390 driver, ok?

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Isaac Flores (iflores486) said : 		#3

Yeah

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Then why are you updating it?

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Isaac Flores (iflores486) said : 		#5

I was having a problem where when I updated Ubuntu base, my hdmi monitor it would sometimes stop working. I fixed that by updating the driver. This last time I found out about selecting drivers in software updater and did that and noticed that I couldn't use version 430 from there.

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Isaac Flores (iflores486) said : 		#6

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.