[SOLVED]Nvidia driver not working LinuxMint18.3

[BadSysOp]

Hello there,
I've just installed a fresh Linux Mint 18.3 xfce4 distro on my computer, and after several times trying to make Nvidia drivers to work, it seems like it's impossible.

Here's what I did so far:

- I've updated the kernel to 4.15
- I've disabled "nouveau"
- I've downloaded "Cuda" from the official repo
- I've downloaded the 390 driver from Nvidia's website
- I've turned off X
- I've installed the 390 driver and got an "installation successful" at the end.

No matter what, Each time I boot the computer, the Nvidia X server settings say:

"You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server."

And every time I run "nvidia-xconfig" it prompts:

Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".
Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'

But the X server stills saying that I've never edited the configuration file.


I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong, but at this point I don't know how to solve it. Is there any hint?
Thanks in advance

[kc1di]

You would be better off installing through the Nvidia PPA that way Nouveau will be blacklisted and not loaded on reboot.
you can find info on that process here: http://www.webupd8.org/2016/06/how-to-i ... rs-in.html

First remove all Nividia drivers you've already installed. with this command

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sudo apt purge nvidia*

then set up the ppa and install via that route.
good Luck.

[BadSysOp]

I Tried it the way you suggested, and right now, the driver manager window doesn't seem to work correctly since it keeps saying

"No proprietary driver in use"

When 390 driver is selected and installed.
Never mind, checking the system trough the terminal shows the 390 driver installed. So I think I've already managed to get them to work.

Thank you so much!

[kc1di]

Glad it's working out for you