I would rename the downloaded driver
N-390.87 so you won’t need to type the actual long name during the installation. Move the driver to
Home.
Check if there is a
nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf file in
/etc/modprobe.d with these lines:
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blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
If not, create it as you did in a previous post, update the initial ramdisk and reboot.
Press
Ctrl+Alt+F1 to enter
tty1. Stop the display manager:
sudo service lightdm stop
Sometimes you may now see a different screen. Just press
Ctrl+Alt+F1 again.
Start the Nvidia driver installation:
sudo sh N-390.87.run
Or if you also want to install the 32 bit libraries:
sudo sh N-390.87.run --compat32-libdir=lib32
Ignore the message about the "
pre-install script failed!" and answer YES to any question.
You will see this message:
“An incomplete installation of libglvnd was found. Do you want to install a full copy of libglvnd?
This will overwrite any existing libglvnd libraries.”
The choices are:
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Don’t install Install and overwrite Abort installation
Select
Install and overwrite. There are actually no libglvnd files installed on your system so nothing is overwriitten.
When the installation is finished, restart the display manager:
sudo service lightdm start
If there is any problem, then press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to enter tty1 again and use these commands to revert:
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sudo service lightdm stop
sudo N-390.87.run --uninstall
sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers.conf
sudo update-initramfs -u; reboot
Post the
Xorg.0.log and the
/var/log/nvidia-installer.log files.
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