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Feature request: Ubuntu support to nvidia drivers

Asked by Carmit Vinik

Ubuntu supports is only 4 of the Nvidia graphic drivers.

I want a natural way to install Nvidia Graphic drivers if I download it from the nvidia site.

otherwise, sorry about my expectations, but I expect full support for the hardware layer including the new drivers which is support the linux kernel by nvidia.

mybe a tool or script which create dev file of the ubuntu style which use the nvidia source or rpm or else distibuted driver file.

$sudo sometool nvidiasrc
which create yourUbuntuNvidiaGraphicDriver.deb

thanx

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Here is how to install nVidia 270.18 / 270.26 Display Drivers In Ubuntu (From A PPA Repository)

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/how-to-install-nvidia-25635-display.html

Manually installing from the nvidia website is not supported at Launchpad.

See here for details:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaManual

If you do a manual install from the nvidia website and encounter issues, you will need to request help at the following location:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

Take a look here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-270.18-driver.html

The 270.18 Linux drivers support all the following graphics cards (a lot more than just 4 different graphics cards):

GeForce 500 series:
GTX 570, GTX 580

GeForce 400 series:
GT 430, GTX 460, GTX 480, GTX 460 SE, GTX 470, GTX 465, GTS 450

GeForce 400M series:
GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 415M, GTX 480M, GTX 460M, GT 420M

GeForce 300 series:
GT 330, GT 340, 315, 310, GT 320

GeForce 300M series:
GT 320M, GTS 360M, GT 325M, GTS 350M, GT 330M, GT 335M, 305M, 310M

GeForce 200 series:
GT 230, GTX 285, GT 240, GTX 295, GTX 275, GTX 280, GTS 240, 205, GTX 260, GT 220, G210, GTS 250

GeForce 200M series:
GTS 260M, G210M, GT 240M, GTX 280M, GT 220M, GTX 285M, GTX 260M, GT 230M, GTS 250M

GeForce 100 series:
GT 140, GT 120, G 100, GT 130

GeForce 100M series:
GTS 150M, G 102M, GT 130M, GTS 160M, G 103M, GT 120M, G 110M, G 105M

GeForce 9 series:
9300, 9300 GE, 9300 GS, 9800 GT, 9400, 9500 GS, 9600 GSO, 9300 SE, 9200, 9500 GT, 9800 GX2, 9800 GTX+, 9600 GS, 9100, 9300 / nForce 730i, 9600 GSO 512, 9400 GT, 9600 GT, 9800 GTX/GTX+, 9650 S

GeForce 9M series:
9200M GS, 9100M G, 9800M GS, 9400M G, 9500M GS, 9800M GTS, 9700M GTS, 9700M GT, 9300M G, 9400M, 9800M GTX, 9600M GS, 9500M G, 9650M GS, 9650M GT, 9300M GS, 9800M GT, 9600M GT

GeForce 8 series:
8800 GT, 8100 / nForce 720a, 8400 SE, 8800 GS, 8300, 8800 GTX, 8200, 8800 GTS, 8500 GT, 8300 GS, 8600 GTS, 8400 GS, 8400, 8800 Ultra, 8800 GTS 512, 8600 GS

GeForce 8M series:
8700M GT, 8600M GT, 8600M GS, 8400M G, 8400M GS, 8800M GTX, 8200M G, 8400M GT, 8800M GTS

GeForce 7 series:
7000M /NVIDIA nForce 610M, 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 630a, 7300 SE / 7200 GS, 7300 GT, 7500 LE, 7650 GS, 7600 GS, 7150M /NVIDIA nForce 630M, 7300 LE, 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7950 GT, 7800 GS, 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a, 7150 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7300 GS, 7600 LE, 7350 LE, 7800 GT, 7800 SLI, 7600 GT, 7050 / NVIDIA nForce 630i, 7050 / nForce 620i, 7950 GX2, 7900 GT/GTO, 7900 GTX, 7900 GS, 7800 GTX, 7100 GS

GeForce Go 7 series:
Go 7900 GS, Go 7600 GT, Go 7400, Go 7300, Go 7950 GTX, Go 7200, Go 7800, Go 7600, Go 7800 GTX, Go 7700

GeForce 6 series:
6600, 6150, 6800, 6100 nForce 405, 6800 LE, 6600 LE, 6200 A-LE, 6800 Ultra, 6200, 6800 GT, 6800 GS, 6250, 6800 XE, 6800 XT, 6600 VE, 6150SE nForce 430, 6100, 6200 LE, 6200SE TurboCache, 6700 XL, 6100 nForce 420, 6150 LE, 6500, 6610 XL, 6600 GT, 6200 TurboCache, 6100 nForce 400

NVS Series:
NVS 300

Quadro series:
6000, 2000, 600, 5000, 4000

Quadro FX series:
FX 1400, FX 1500, FX 580, FX 4500 X2, FX 5600, FX Go1400, FX 550, FX 4500, FX 3700, FX 4700 X2, FX 350, FX 540, FX 4000, FX 370 Low Profile, FX 3400/4400, FX 560, FX 570, FX 4600, FX 4800, FX 3500, CX, FX 5500, FX 3800, FX 380 LP, FX 370, FX 5800, FX 1800, FX 380, FX 3450/4000 SDI, FX 1700

Quadro Notebook series:
5000M

Quadro FX Notebook series:
FX 560M, FX 1600M, FX 2700M, FX 1500M, FX 370M, FX 2800M, FX 3600M, FX 540M, FX 2500M, FX 3800M, FX 1800M, FX 570M, FX 880M, FX 3700M, FX 360M, FX 350M, FX 770M, FX 1700M, FX 380M

Quadro NVS series:
NVS 450, NVS 210S / 6150LE, NVS 290, NVS 285, NVS 295, NVS 440, NVS 420

Quadro NVS Notebook series:
NVS 110M, NVS 120M, NVS 135M, NVS 150M, NVS 160M, NVS 130M, NVS 510M, NVS 140M, NVS 320M

Quadro Plex series:
Model II, D Series, Model IV, 7000

Quadro G-Sync series:
G-Sync II

Quadro SDI series:
Quadro SDI

1U System:
Tesla S2050, Tesla M2070-Q, Tesla M1060, Tesla M2070, Tesla M2050, T10 Processor

ION series:
ION, ION LE

GPU Computing Processor series:
Tesla C1060, Tesla C870, Tesla C2070, Tesla C2050

If your nvidia graphics card is not in this list, then you will need to tell us exactly which model and make of graphics card that you are using....

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Nadav (nadavvin) said : 		#2

Are those drivers plan to added to the official repositories? natty or also previous versions

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

As listed in http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606 there are 4 families of proprietary linux drivers available from nvidia.

Each of these drivers supports a long list of different nvidia graphics cards (see ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/270.30/README/supportedchips.html ), and each of them has been packed for ubuntu in a .deb file provided in the ubuntu repositories (with different version levels for the different ubuntu releases - not all of them with the most recent version).

There are certain dependencies between the nvidia driver version and the packages delivered by ubuntu, so not each version of a certain nvidia driver can be installed in each release of Ubuntu. The packages delivered by ubuntu take into account the dependencies and will provide a working system (well - at least with a very high probability). If you download the driver directly from nvidia you have to make sure yourself that all dependencies are met and no incompatibilities arise.

As packaging a driver for Ubuntu and testing that it is correctly running needs some work to be done, the ubuntu .deb packages will not be instantly available when nvidia provides a new driver version. And due to limited demand and potential incompatibilities not all new nvidia driver versions will be backported to older Ubuntu releases.

As long as the combination of your desired nvidia driver version and your ubuntu release has not been provided as a .deb file in the official ubuntu repositories, you can look in the xorg-edgers ppa, maybe they have already built a beta version for the combination you are looking for.

What driver version do you need, and which Ubuntu release are you running?

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Carmit Vinik (carmitvinik) said : 		#4

well, i use ubuntu 10.04 and i still dont get what could be so different between my version and the new one which is relevant about this issue... i believe that even the current version dosent have full support for all nvidia graphic chipset.
we mention the issue for new drivers but there is also policy not to support old drivers(not only graphic ones) of old hardware.

I just have good intention that new linux users will use ubuntu as their first linux OS and even instead of MS WIN7.
I used to recommand Ubuntu to new linux users and I dont have all the time to support all problems (i am just a human being)
that's why i need that feature and automatic hardware support is important issue.

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Nadav (nadavvin) said : 		#5

I just buy a new laptop with 310M which also in this list. I set the PPA source and install NVIDIA and still X failed to load.

I installed 32 bit ubuntu and the link disscuss on 64 bit. Does 32 bit isn't support?

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Nadav (nadavvin) said : 		#6

I check in NVIDIA website and I need driver version 260.19.44 which realease in 2011.03.07

I have also old computer P4 which the Ubuntu NV driver don't work on it but I yet check this PPA on it

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