Thanks. After browsing tons of forums where people get to step 3 and just say "now run it" as though a newbie knows how, I found your video. And it worked first time, now I'm no longer stuck at 30Hz and 1080i.
This video solved a problem i've been working on for weeks! Thanks a bunch! I got a gtx 1050 ti recently to use as a video encoder so it doesnt hammer my cpu so much, and this completely fixed everything
@@imop285 it depends on supported drivers. They have written info on official Nvidia website driver section. Something like driver version 470 starts to use Prime offload. And this driver works for GTX900 series and newer. I read tons of information how to manage this and Its a pain. But I will manage this.
Hi! I just want to add a note that this is only for machines that have secure boot disable in UEFI bios, otherwise it will not work. To install video drivers with secure boot enable, you need to create a signing key, and load that key into your UEFI bios to load the video drivers. Thanks for your time and help.
But is getting a signing key and doing all that useful? I have recommended to disable TPM to people. It seems to be something aimed at the Windows world where it is a prime target to attacks.
@@louistournas120 Hi! Louis Thanks for the reply, it is useful, you are using Linux as your OS, takes advantage of acceleration of graphics, decoding, and encoding of video. TPM is security hardware chip, prevents bios/UEFI or viruses attacks, it is a most in today's world. My 2 cents for this. Have a good day!
You got a new subscriber. I don't want to talk about the days of compiling the drivers and updating the kernel days. So many fucking blank screens on reboots in my 20s.
Yeah the NVIDIA drivers really have come a long way. I missed most of the days of compiling the drivers manually thankfully. And thanks for the sub! :D
I'm apologize for not posting a video in over a month. There's been a lot on between work, some family stuff, and fighting with some plumbing issues in my house, but I'm back now (I even have next week's video already done!) and I hope you all like this one! :D
@@BitGoblin Man I love my 1060; My first dedicated GPU. I carried her over from my first PC I bought used into my new custom PC with Asus Tuf X570, 16gb ddr4 (can't remember brand, cache load, or speeds but it's pretty fast. RAM is RAM, just choose one with good specs, brand doesn't matter), 1TB PCIe Gen 3 NVMe (its fast asf for me, I later added an extra 500GB NVMe of high-caliber as well) and a Ryzen 5 3600X. Haven't had any issues gaming, although I prefer single player games anyways and I don't usually play the big graphically intensive games because I prefer gameplay over looks, and also what interest me at the time. For school, browsing the web, watching my "borrowed" movies n shows, and everything else it's super smooth I can't go back to a crappy old ThinkPad (maybe if I replace Windows with Linux, but just for browsing and writing).
Bless you mate. I've had random freezing on my Manjaro KDE in the last week, so I'm hoping that downloading the Nvidia drivers will help. Many thanks. You got yourself a new subscriber too.
Hopefully that'll help! I haven't had a good time with the open source nouveau drivers, so in theory the proprietary drivers will help Also You're welcome and thanks! 😁
I tried the old methode for like 30 minutes (did not work for me) until i found this great tutorial. But "Software & Updates" is called "driver managment" on Linux Mint. Thank you for this great Video!
Man things are so much easier than they used to be. I'm a casual linux user so this was helpful. I want to use my Linux for music making so I installed the low latency kernel but that didn't have nvidia support by default. I tried installing the nvidia modules using apt but that apt came up with some dependency errors which I could not figure out. Long story shot, I rant apt dist-upgrade and I noticed it fixed some shit to do with dkms or whatever and then it did some insmod commands then after a reboot, the nvidia driver was finally installed to my lowlatency kernel. So you video kinda helped indirectly.
Even if it was indirect I'm glad I helped out somehow 😉 Thankfully it seems you just needed a dkms rebuild to get it working, I know those modified/non-standard kernels can be a pain with the Nvidia drivers (or any drivers really).
thanks, i had to install nvidia-525 and NOT nvidia-525-open like it was recommending me to do in the driver manager gui. that is why i kept getting a black screen with a blicking cursor. to fix i uninstaled all nvidia drivers in recovery, then used the terminal in there to install nvidia-525.
That makes sense. I haven't played around with the open-source NVIDIA drivers too much, but they seem to be a little finnicky still, so it's probably worth sticking with the closed-source drivers for the time being. That's weird that the driver manager was recommending the open ones though, maybe I've just had a bad experience and they're usually fine?
I somewhat agree as you need the Propitiatory Drivers if you run a Nvidia card and it makes no sense to cripple yourself by not installing them. However, I will always pick the Open Source/FOSS alternative if available. Personally I just gave my Nvidia card to my brother and bought an AMD for that reason. I just wish Nvidia would Open Source the drivers like AMD.
I didn't really mention it much in the video, but I feel the same way. I too use an AMD GPU for this reason and since I also had some trouble using window capture in OBS with an NVIDIA GPU some time ago. Open source really is the way to go and I use it when possible, I just know that some companies don't like it for whatever reason. An open source NVIDIA driver really would be ideal... let's hope this happens someday! :D
Personally I've had an okay experience with the NVIDIA driver in the past few years, without too many issues beyond occasionally breaking during updates - they've gotten a lot better and even do decently on my laptop with hybrid graphics. That being said, I've definitely had a smoother experience on my desktop in Linux since going to AMD, so that's what I'd recommend to Linux users.
Hi, Bit Goblin, Strange news. I tried the suggestion in this video and it didn't work. Then I tried to use the video on the CPU. (I think I missed a few steps and I may not have done everything I needed to do? .) Nothing. but then I blew dust out of the GTX560TI and put it back in its slot. I am back on my own computer. It's working. I think this was shot across the bow. I may actually replace the the GTX one of these days, but I nee to learn more about that process - the terminal 'root' didn't understand what i was asking, said it couldn't find the packages.. so I was using the right terms. I am going to get serious about learning about Linux. I really don't want Windows... I want to learn this. I'll catch on your videos. I think its just the jargon that intimidates me. 😃 PS. I wish I could give you all his hardware... he was really into simulators and I'd love his hotas, foot pedals and VR headset to go to a good home!
Awesome! I'm glad to hear that you're back up and running. Sometimes just a simple hardware swap or reseating a connector can do the trick. And good luck with learning Linux - it really is fun (at least it is for me). The jargon is definitely something the community could do better on to help be more accessible to less savvy folks, but it's never wrong to ask questions or look things up. And I appreciate the thought but I've got enough hardware as it is, sometimes too much :)
Good job! Thank you! What kills my time over and over again is this issue: I got NVIDIA prop drivers running on my laptop. From time to time (or update to update) it refuses to recognize my displays connected to USB-C dock. What to say: Windooze does out of the box. Got Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS running. Dock is fully supporting DP over USB-C.
I wonder if that's something to do with the Nvidia drivers not rebuilding properly after a kernel upgrade? Or maybe just flaky drivers for the dock? As much as I like Linux, there are some things that just work better in Windows 😭
I personally don't have one but I'm sure there are other videos or guides online that would show it. This guide seems good for RHEL/CentOS and co: www.seimaxim.com/kb/how-to-install-the-nvidia-proprietary-driver-on-almalinux
great video easy to follow along. Though its much more complicated on Arch Linux using i3 my driver isnt being loaded. UPDATE i figured it out I manually had to add Nvidia driver
Thanks! Personally I don't have too much experience with Arch, but when I do play with it I've had good luck with that method. And by manually install the drivers, what do you mean? Install it via the CLI, or do you mean needing to configure X11 manually?
I'll add to my list of videos to do in the near-term future. It's something I've personally never had to deal with (somehow), but it's definitely worth knowing how to do :)
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and the install ran in 4K resolution (3840 x 2160) on my Nvidia RTX 3070. Booting into the installed result, my resolution was locked at 640 x 480 due to unknown display. Very odd behavior. Ubuntu is almost unusable at this resolution.
Have you installed the Nvidia driver yet? If you haven't, the open source nouveau drivers likely don't have (good) support for the RTX 30-series cards.
@@BitGoblin I'm working on getting the video into a usable state right now, so no new driver yet. It seems like this version of Ubuntu came out in April 2020 and the RTX 3070 came out in October 2020 so it's no surprise that the OS doesn't have card-specific support for the 3070. What WAS surprising to me was that the installer was more functional than the thing it was installing.
Thanks for this video! Following your steps, I ended up issuing the same command you did in the video ("sudo apt install nvidia-driver-470") and after a reboot I now am at 4K, with my card and monitor recognized correctly. When I last used Ubuntu back in 2013 or so, the installer detected my card and monitor so I didn't have to do any of this.
Oh duh, I didn't process that lol. My bad. That is really weird, I guess the installer has proprietary drivers loaded by default? I'm curious to know why now...
Awesome! I'm glad you're up and going now! As for using Ubuntu back in 2013, I wonder if your card just had "enough" support from nouveau or something? NVIDIA's GPUs are wonky on Linux at times, and they have changed a lot since then
How can i make use of my nvidia gpu on Kali Linux so i am able to perform penetrations testing, please help me brother,i tried everywhere i didn't get any results
I'm not super familiar with using NVIDIA GPUs for pen testing personally, but as long as you have the driver installed that should be a good start. The Kali Linux documentation has an article on getting that going. www.kali.org/docs/general-use/install-nvidia-drivers-on-kali-linux/ Edit: forgot to post the link lol
Most distros have a "legacy" NVIDIA driver package that you can install for older cards. Assuming you're looking for Arch, either "nvidia-470xx-dkms" for Kepler series cards, or "nvidia-390xx-dkms" for some even older ones from the AUR should do the trick.
What distro were you using and what's your card model? I wonder if the installer wasn't blacklisting the nouveau drivers, or maybe you need the legacy driver if you have an older GPU?
@@BitGoblin Linux Mint. i am not sure, but switching to the Liquorix Linux kernel seemed to help, managed to install the drivers and as of today, they work. even gave me the ability to change the screen brightness edit: the video card is a Geforce RTX 3080, if i remember correctly (not on the computer rn). found someone recommending the other kernel on the nVidia developer forums
Playing games in a Windows VM on a Linux host is possible if you pass through your GPU the windows VM. You will need another GPU to use for your Linux host though, and this can be your iGPU if you have one. I'll make a video on it in a bit to show how it's done 😁
Hi, I'm using ubuntu 20.04 in a virtual box (Oracle VM) in windows 11. My GPU is an RTX 3060Ti but the GPU is unable to connect with the virtual machine, it only works on the host OS winodws 11. How can I use my GPU inside the virtual machine in Ubuntu??
I'm having a rough time getting my 4090 to work with any version of linux so far. I've done linux mint cinnamon and after I install nvidia, I can't even get into the operating system after a restart. I tried using fedora and after installing nvidia, I couldn't connect to the internet even though being hardwired in, and the monitor connected to the 4090 won't display.
For Linux Mint: how/when have you been installing the driver? I've noticed if I install the driver immediately after installing the system and logging in it can cause some issues if I don't first update my system, reboot, then install the driver (and reboot again to load the driver). It looks like the driver shipped with Mint should support the 4090. As for Fedora I have no idea about that one lol. I can't say I've ever run into my graphics card driver causing problems with my ethernet adapter. But for the display it might be worth checking that the nouveau driver is being blacklisted, since that will cause conflicts with the NVIDIA driver.
Hello. I have been struggling to install my Rtx driver on Mint. It is not user friendly process at all :( as you pointed out at the beginning. Any thing here for me to apply on Mint version also to ease the process?
And this is why many an older platform works better with Windows, Supported or not. I've got 2 systems that have the 7025 on chip video and the modern linux Crapped the bed, But windows 10 and 11 vid drivers work fine on them
Yeah, older hardware is kinda hit or miss on Linux. If the drivers are open source then normally it's plug-n-play, but if not then you gotta hope there's a legacy driver available somewhere.
Was that a typo in your comment? "nvidia" should be "nvidia". If that was just a typo in the comment, I'm assuming your system is running Arch Linux? You could try making sure the Extra repo is enabled.
Using Manjaro, I used sudo pacman -S nvidia Still think its on an older version, because i now have video-nvidia-470xx, and when I first bought my computer (few months ago) I did the same process and I still have video-nvidia-470xx!
Manjaro has a slightly different want of getting the Nvidia driver, it's something like "sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300", rebooting, and you should be good to go. That said, I'm not sure if Manjaro has the latest Nvidia drivers or not. I'd assume they'd have at least like 530, but they might be holding on an old-but-stable version. Here's the guide I used recently for Manjaro, for reference: linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-nvidia-drivers-on-manjaro-linux
Huh, honestly I had never heard of Sparklinux before, but doing some quick research it does sound like a neat distro! I'll have to try it out some time... But as for the NVIDIA driver, since it's based on Debian I'd try installing the drivers from Debian's non-free repos: wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
I believe so? I don't have any personal experience with RTX (I don't have an RTX card) nor with Blender, but from what I'm seeing it should just work with the driver installed. If I get my hands on a newer card with RTX support I'll test it out
I keep getting this error even after a successful driver install NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running. Any idea why?
You can install the NVIDIA drivers by following the tutorial in the video :) You shouldn't need to uninstall or change anything prior, but they will only work if you've got an NVIDIA graphics card.
Hey! Sorry for the late reply, are you still having this issue? If so, during the install, did you check the box for installing proprietary drivers? Also, do you know what WiFi/ethernet adapters you're using? These days most of the common adapters should have drivers either built-in or automatically installed on Ubuntu, but some don't.
Yep! Debian you basically just need to enable the non-free repo, run apt update, then install the Nvidia-driver and firmware-misc-nonfree packages. wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Debian_11_.22Bullseye.22
Hey i have ubuntu on my Lenovo that runs AMD Redeon r5 because i don't have a graphics card. I am trying to run an editing software called DaVinci Resolve 18 but keeps saying unsupported gpu Processing mode and won't open. How do i fix this. I also installed nvidia driver 525 but i don't know how to run it and I don't see anything for additional drivers either
So you're running off of your processor's integrated graphics? For DaVinci Resolve you need to have a supported OpenCL driver, and for AMD graphics you need to install their proprietary driver to get that to work. www.amd.com/en/support/linux-drivers However, I don't know how well it'll work with their APUs, they may not be supported. I'd definitely remove the NVIDIA driver if you don't have an NVIDIA graphics card in your system to avoid that causing any issues.
I followed your video and installed nvidi in aws linux and how can i reboot. if i done reboot it's closing the application. how to rebbot inside the aws linux. I installed locally by following your video. it's very simple and shot
I'm not super familiar with managing AWS instances. But I'd assume if you need to reboot your AWS instance, from the CLI you should just be able to run "reboot", without the quotes. AWS also has some documentation for how to install the NVIDIA driver on their Linux instances here: docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-nvidia-driver.html#public-nvidia-driver Let me know if you figure it out!
I'd try downloading the 340.108 driver from NVIDIA's website and installing that. Or you can try using an older, supported Ubuntu version like 20.04 or 18.04 to see if it has a compatible driver. Otherwise, I don't know what else can be done other than upgrading your GPU, unfortunately.
Ah right, fair enough. Hopefully an older Ubuntu release or another LTS OS like RHEL would have support for the older drive. I don't know if much else can be done, but if you do figure it out I'd be curious to know what the solution is!
It's possible you may need to configure X11 to use the Nvidia driver. You can do that by running "nvidia-xonfig" as root. The Arch wiki has some troubleshooting steps if you haven't look at it yet: wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting
@@BitGoblin oh my laptop falls into the optimus category :v i've read and tried it all :v checked the compatible drivers, tried the nvidia package from arch repo, tried the beta version in the AUR, made all the changes to etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf and /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup for my sddm display manager :p nvidia simply wouldn't run :v i've checked it says it' loaded with the nvidia proprietary drivers but nvidia-smi shows it's not running and nvidia-settings won't even open. i just tried ur method of running nvidia-xconfig as root and now i boot into a blackscreen with 2 lines "Starting version 249.4 ....... /dev/nvme0n1p5....4133 blocks" :p the troubleshooting for optimus doesn't seem to cover my case either
Ah I see. The NVIDIA optimus setup can be a little tricky to get going but is doable. I'd first see if you can undo the nvidia-xconfig command - I think it saves a backup file under /etc/X11/xorg.d or something along those lines? You might have to google around a bit as I haven't personally done a lot of "unconfiguring" NVIDIA drivers before, I normally just reinstall if I don't need them lol. I'm sure it's possible running strictly off the NVIDIA GPU but that'll waste your battery when you're not using it (and it seems to not work well for you :P). As for using optimus for offloading rendering, by default you'd be running on your iGPU so you'd need to run commands prefixed with "prime-run" to run on the GPU. So like running glxgears to test you'd do "prime-run glxgears", or launching a game in Steam you'd need to set the launch command to "prime-run %command%". The PRIME render offload stuff is listed here: wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME#PRIME_render_offload Edit: hit enter too early lol
@@BitGoblin yeah don't worry I already plugged in a live usb and reverted the changes right after that. Anyways I just wanted to say thanks for being so positive and tried to help me out. I've gone through the wiki thoroughly before and have been trying to get nvidia running for hours last night :/ I was really frustrated and was on the verge of giving up but ur positive vibe helped me calm down and get back to debugging. I've manage to get it working with prime-run today. thank you so much for the positivity and knowledge! have a good day.
It's no problem, I'm glad you were able to solve your problem, even if it did mean reinstalling! Sometimes just talking with something else is all you need to get the gears turning properly 😉
@Bit Goblin : I have an older gpu Nvidia GT 730 and I could not install it in Fedora40 Workstation. It always gives me black screen and I could not replace the newer 555.xx with the Nvidia driver 470xx. Can you please guide me or make a step-by-step video on this? It will be very helpful.
You will likely need to fully uninstall everything for the Nvidia driver (dnf remove nvidia* --allowerasing), run an update just to be safe (dnf update), then install the Nvidia 470 driver. Let me know if that helps!
@@BitGoblin I did that but I did not update it because I thought, if I update then the default Nvidia 555xx driver could be installed again through the update and the same thing would happen. So, after removing the Nvidia driver, I install the 470xx driver from RPM Fusion repository and then a weird thing happened. After rebooting, on the login screen, when I clicked on the wheel icon, which lets us choose the DE, there were only 2 options, GNOME and GNOME Classic. But before removing the default driver and installing 470xx, there were more options with these two like GNOME Wayland, GNOME Xorg etc. And when I logged in, this time it entered into GNOME Xorg DE and it became default. I know how the GNOME Xorg DE looks like because I used it before. And then the 2nd weird thing happened. In every window, be it settings or folders, nothing was visible except the outer borders of that window. But when I moved my mouse over a window, the texts and buttons became visible and sometimes they disappeared again. This is probably the 470xx driver incompatibility. This is the last experiment which I did and then I reformatted the SSD and installed Fedora from scratch and now it is running on Nvidia Nouveau driver. I should mention that Fedora always recognised the GT730 card.
Omg linux is so complicated with so many different versions or whatever... I feel like its way too complicated to ever become big thing but im trying it out anyway 😁
It is a bit daunting when you're first starting out, but IMO it's a lot easier (note: not simpler!) than it initially seems. A lot of the concepts are the same between different distributions, and really it's just about which one fits your needs better. And if you don't know, then Ubuntu or Linux Mint are always a good starting point! :D Also feel free to ask me any questions you may have! I'm on vacation this week but I'm usually pretty responsive :)
It's been awhile since I've done it that way, but IIRC you should be able to open a terminal, cd to your Downloads directory, and run it like "sh ./NVIDIA-linux....run" without the quotes and replacing the ... with the rest of the filename.
once installed through apt, in furutre, when new version of drivers come, would sudo apt update will handle it? Or it'd need uninstalling older drivers, and reinstalling new one?
If it's installed through apt, then yes future versions will be handled via apt. Depending on your distribution you may only get security/bug fixes or the latest versions provided by NVIDIA, but they'll be handled via apt either way.
@@BitGoblin also, is there any simple graphics switcher (PopOS has inbuilt one in top-right corner) for other distributions, ex. for Fedora/KDE Neon? If such toggle isn't there, how to switch graphics from Nvidia to Xe to save battery in case of laptops?
hello, install PoP os in a dell E6430 it has an nvidia nvs5200m but it doesn't recognize it only manages intel graphics and it doesn't recognize my HDMI I wanted to know if following these steps it will work for that old graphics.
Honestly I have no idea. I don't think that GPU is supported anymore but I believe Pop has a legacy driver that would work. For that you would do "sudo apt install nvidia-driver-390" to install it and "sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-driver-390" to make sure it doesn't get updated.
@@BitGoblin Doesn't matter anymore I just reinstalled arch, I installed it originally like 4 days ago so the only thing I really lost was 4 days. But 3080, desktop, intel cpu 10-700k, and arch linux. I watched probably 10 different videos, all saying different things, no clue what was wrong, no help on the internet, as like me, everyone just reinstalled the distro, instead of figuring out why nvidia drivers suck.
And for the record, the instructions on the Debian wiki have served me well in the past, though j can't say I've gamed that much on Debian recently :) wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
No problem, let me know if you're able to get it working! And a 2080 Ti is definitely not too old lol, but it might be too new for Debian 9's drivers - Debian 11/Bullseye should be good for it :)
Nvidia driver isn't wanting to post I'm running a Laptop with hybrid gfx AMD Integrated, and Nvidia 1650 mobile as the second GFX I used Optimus, but its saying I didn't setup the nvidia gfx correctly when I followed your Arch Linux tutorial
@@BitGoblin Yeah I keep getting a few errors one that says < WARNING: Unable to locate/opem X configuration file. WARNING: Unable to parse X. Org version string ERROR: Unable to find any GPU's in the system. ERROR: Unable to write to directory '/etc/x11' > When I ran "nvidia-xconfig" in the terminal Then while I was at it I also got < NVIDIA driver not loaded (nvidia-settings:12395): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:13:19.098: g_object unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed ** (nvidia-settings:12395): CRITICAL **10:13:19.103: ctk_powermode_new: assertion '(ctrl_target != NULL) && (ctrl_target->h != NULL)' failed > Whenever I ran "prime-run nvidia-settings"
@@BitGoblin Also I checked I didn't have that driver, but I installed it just in case I have an AMD Ryzen 5 with Radeon GFX, and an NVIDIA 1650 Mobile Didn't seem to change the errors though
Do you still have an Xorg configuration in place? "Unable to locate/opem X configuration file" would signal to me that X is borked somehow. Also, are you using a non-standard kernel like the realtime or LTS kernels?
@@BitGoblin Aight some how stumblin on forums all night I fixed it some of my memory is fuzzy I did so many things, but I know it was a mix between a bad dkms install, and not using sudo when I needed it I had to remove the dkms via this code Then I could run these without error From there I installed "optimus-manager-qt" which allowed me to switch to my gfx card of choice obv the nvidia. So it's all good now, thanks so much for the help hopefully my comment can help someone else too.
I don't hate closed drivers, at least not currently. I will be switching to linux and hopefully will stay there not because I am a big open source fan, though I do like it, but because windows has become so awful to use these days. Just every time I use W10/11 it just drives me nuts with the forced updates, bad design, removed features, moving towards online only accounts, them pushing harder and harder to get you onto their store, etc etc. It's just a non-stop poo sandwich from microsoft these days.
I feel that - everyone has their own reasons for using their computers, and I wouldn't everyone to really care about OSS or not. :) There are other reasons to use Linux like you mentioned, and the forced updates and huge push toward online-only accounts (amongst other things) are big ones for me.
On Ubuntu-based distros, after you install the driver you can launch applications with the commands you see under the NVIDIA > Hybrid section in the Pop!_OS docs: support.system76.com/articles/graphics-switch-pop/. Some distros offer right-click options to launch games using dedicated graphics, and for games in Steam you'd go to a game's Properties and edit the launch command like "__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command%". Ultimately though it depends on your distro since it seems everyone does it slightly differently.
@@BitGoblin I know how to start Unigine Heaven benchmark on my distro and even this "easiest" way is complicated. I need to open terminal and drag-n-drop application there. So... at what moment and where to write that prime variable is totally a secret for me. Linux Mint Debian Edition.
I'm assuming you mean in Steam? Go to Steam menu (top-left of the window) > Settings > Downloads tab, and click on the "Steam library folders" button. In the new window that pops up click on the + button to add a drive, navigate to and select a folder on the new drive, and then you can click the gear icon and "Make default" to install new games to the drive by default.
I'd double-check the refresh rates of your displays when both are connected, if you haven't already. What GPU are you using? If it's something really old or possibly one of the brand new 4000-series NVIDIA GPUs it might be something to do with driver support? But that's just a blind guess.
I have a problem i am at 4:45 and at this point i have used the proprietary, tested one and it gave me a error, then i did the other one and it gave me a error too, do you know what this means?
@@BitGoblin well idk how to explain the error correctly it looks like a giant essay but filled with like random letters and numbers and its a paragraph so big it goes off my screen
Has anyone got ubuntu to work on an ASUS TUF A15 with multiscreens; ok my laptop screen works but the USB C to DISPLAYPORT to an WQHD @ 165Hz external monitor is just BLACK doesn't work yet Ubuntu recognizes my Nividia RTX 3060 laptop gpu and monitor. I did this while in DEMO MODE. Since it didn't work in DEMO MODE, I did not install Ubuntu onto the SSD. So if I did install Ubuntu, and 1st have to BLACKLIST the Noveau driver, and then apt install the latest Nivida drivers 525 I think then reboot it should get my external monitor on the USBC DISPLAYPORT working? Under Windows 11 this monitor works fine, so the hardware and cable works. Any help would be appreciated, and I tried this on afew other distros the same problem exists, the laptop screen (using AMD integrated GPU) works but not external monitor (using Nividia gpu).
After the NVIDIA driver is installed, I would check what mode your GPUs are in. There's usually something like "discrete only", "integrated only", and "hybrid". Usually the hybrid and discrete modes work for external monitors for me.
Fedora is frustrating. I just followed your instructions and after the first reboot everything went well but after the second reboot I got a message saying that the Nvidia Module is missing and that it was rolling back to nouveau....FUCK
Yeah Fedora with the NVIDIA driver has always been finnicky for me - in theory it works just fine, but it seemed like every other time the kernel would update DKMS would fail to rebuild the driver and I'd be stuck without it. It might be worth trying to reinstall it from scratch (e.g. dnf remove akmod-nvidia; dnf install akmod-nvidia) and see if that helps at all.
It looks like you'd first need to uninstall the manually installed drivers first. You can run "sudo NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-418.43.run --uninstall", then "sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall". You just need to change the name of the .run file with whatever you have downloaded from NVIDIA's site.
I'm the widow of a computer programmer.. he assembled his own machines, played simulators, etc. I'm trying to figure out something. Please answer the following questions? Do ASUS mother boards have their own video card so If I took a card off it would still work? Would Linux recognize it easier? wondered that because my husband said something to effect that mother boards have such cards but they are usually junk. Today my own video card died. We had a minor power outage and it gave up the ghost. I took it out and found an older NVidia in my husbands study. Its a 8800 GTX. It is a very large card and I had to move a hard disk to a different spot to fit it into my old box. I think I may need to buy a smaller card, anyway. the 8800 is immense for that small machine and overkill for what I do with my computer. I reassembled the computer and it is working, fine, and got to the Kbuntu blue logo page and then it would go no further. I found out that it is definitely the lack of driver. The Microsoft side just said 'oh, new Video card. updated.' Do you know if there is any sites here or on you tube where I could learn enough to update my Ubuntu OS ? Its been two years since my husband's death and I have the OS of October or Spring 2019. I need to update. My husband taught me a great deal and I always watched him as he worked on the computers. I would like to keep Linux. I like it better than Windows. Please, point me in the right direction. I've always known this day was coming. If I move to this machine permanently, I will still need to update it. I think he has Oct. 2019 on it. Thanks. Please answer.
1) The graphics on a motherboard are dependent on the CPU that's installed, so you can't remove it without also removing the CPU. You can remove a discrete graphics card and just use the onboard graphics without too much hassle. 2) It would depend on the GPU for how well Linux handles it. Older graphics cards tend to have better support initially, but at least for NVIDIA GPUs you can install the NVIDIA driver and it will work pretty well. That said, an 8800 GTX might be a little too old and I have no idea how well the Linux drivers will handle it, your best bet here would be to use the legacy driver (which I believe is nvidia-340?) 3) If you're comfortable with opening a terminal and running commands, you can run The HowToGeek article "How to Upgrade to the Latest Version of Ubuntu" is pretty good too, that can help walk you through the steps. Also, if you're that out of date it might be easier just to reinstall the OS if you don't need the data on that PC (and if you're up for it, of course). I'm sorry to hear about your husband, I hope you've been doing okay! Let me know if you have any more questions (or if I need to explain anything above) :)
@@BitGoblin Thank you!! I'm not removing the CPU at all... That wasn't the problem. It was GTX 560 TI I might try to use the onboard graphics(I knew he said something like that!) . It had been having trouble at bootup in the morning but I thought it was the monitor. I nearly bought myself another monitor. I tried exchanging my husband''s monitor for mine, and the problem persisted after the power outage. (totally black screen.) It occurred to me that it had to be the graphics card. That is great news (about on board graphics) I am going to try again . I whimper a lot and feel like I am playing at being a grownup when I start using the terminal, but I can do it. If the onboard graphics card doesn't work, I'll buy myself NVidia 340 or see if any GTX560TI is still available on the net. I'd like to keep the data on that computer. Its an old beater-upper.. but a lot of emails from better days. I've got a question about the terminal ( The grub, at the grub page/menu) had options where I would choose Ubuntu or Windows, I chose running a repair mode and it helped me.That is when I found out it was the driver. It called one choice. 'Root' and it looked mostly like the the terminal screen. I tried it and it responded. IF I am speaking gibberish, I'll get the exact words from that screen. I was shocked when I got that far. I really thought I had the problem fixed but it gets to the blue logo page and refuses to go anywhere else. Thank you for the kind words. I'm OK. I hurt. We weren't only man and wife, we were the best of friends.I'm glad he had the chance to build himself one masterful gaming computer before we found out about the cancer. He was like a lot of his generation. Got the home computer bug, young, and owned computers his entire lifetime. I always encouraged him because I was as crazy about Tech and science, as he was.
Wow I completely spaced and forgot to finish my thought: if you're comfortable with a terminal, you can open one up and run "sudo do-release-upgrade" to update to a newer Ubuntu version. If you can, try running "sudo apt update" and "sudo apt upgrade" prior to get the current OS up to date as much as possible before running the do-release-upgrade, but I don't know if that'll still work and if not then the do-release-upgrade should be fine. The repair mode "root" option that you went into I believe takes you to single-user mode, which doesn't have any internet connection by default. You can run "init 3" to enable networking, then the above commands should work to update your system. Just a quick point of clarification: the "nvidia-340" was the version of the NVIDIA driver that might work for the 8800 GTX. Depending on what you're doing you can probably snag an AMD R9 270X for cheap (I'm seeing like around $50 or so on eBay) that would do the trick. Only thing is it doesn't get current driver support, but that should be fine.
@@BitGoblin Hi, again. I was about to ask. I don't do Ebay but I just need a nice replacement card. It doesn't have to fancy or a gaming card. I mainly do writing and posting/email/watching videos on this machine. My gaming days are over. (yes, really THAT old) 😅This one is still on its last legs. The good news is my husband's machine is fine. I've got things set up so if this dies, I'm backed up. I'm learning a great deal. I am going to start watching videos, including, beginner class ones. I have so many questions I wouldn't know where to start. My husband told me several times that I wasn't really a beginner, and that I knew more than i realized but I think there are a lot of holes in my knowledge base. I'm giving up on the 8800 GTX because it is so large. I'm humble enough to admit I don't know enough yet to get it to work. I'd love a NVIDIA card that I could put in this computer, plug in, turn on and it works. I've already looked on Amazon and New egg, a lot of the descriptions could be in Ancient Latin for all I understand them. Thanks again!
What distribution are you using (like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch)? It's possible you might need to blacklist the nouveau drivers since that causes problems with them loading, or maybe there's something going on with X11 or Wayland?
Hello I am using Zorin OS Pro 16.1 and when I install the nvidia proprietory software from system additional updates. I am stuck in black screen after booting up. I also experienced this while using fedora 46.
I'd check if you have secure boot enabled in your system's BIOS, which may be blocking the NVIDIA drivers from loading. Otherwise, are you running on a laptop with hybrid graphics or a desktop?
@@BitGoblin my laptop does not have secure boot nor tpm it is a vaio laptop with Nvidia GeForce 410m with cuda. Having an intel i5-2450M cpu. I primarily use windows 10. But I wanna try linux too. The default graphics after installing zorin os was Nouveau.
Oh I see now. Which driver version did you install? It looks like the latest version that supports the 400m series is version 391, and while I don't see that in Additional Drivers, I was able to find the "nvidia-driver-390" package in the repos. You should just need to revert back to nouveau, then install that package.
Can anyone help me how can i install amd's legacy gpu driver? I got a xfx double d hd 6850, and it is out of support. Display quality isn't good as it was on windows. Somebody please help me.
What Linux distro are you running? The legacy AMD drivers should be provided by the open-source mesa drivers, which usually are installed by default. If you're on Ubuntu, try opening a terminal and running "man -k amd" which should tell you if you have the AMD GPU driver installed, and then "man radeon" will list the supported GPUs. Also what do you mean by "display quality isn't as good..."? Are you having trouble with multiple monitors, or resolution, or something?
@@BitGoblin Thanks for your replay. I'm running pop os 22.04. I researched about either of which radeon or catalyst to use, and people recommend catalyst for more stability etc. And for the display, i was talking about the visual quality, and no its not because of the resolution selected in settings. Another thing i wanna know is how to run windows applications - installers on here. People seem to have fun with linux, but i really have no idea what to do here. Im a newbie, and i may need some, at least basic guides for linux to learn how to use it, and provide stability, optimization, and most importantly, compatibility.
Hmm, I'm not really sure what to check then in terms of the display quality. Maybe try seeing if you can install one of the old AMD proprietary drivers like www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-lin-15-9 I'm sorry I can't be too much of help here :/ As for running Windows programs on Linux, you should check out Wine. www.winehq.org/ It's a compatibility layer that does a fairly good job of letting you run Windows programs on Linux. If you're looking for running Windows games specifically, Steam Proton and Lutris will serve you well. Enabling Proton will let you run a lot of Steam games on Linux, and Lutris can handle a lot of the games on other platforms.
The Intel graphics driver is installed by default in a lot of (most?) Linux distributions, and because it is open-source it doesn't show up under "Additional Drivers" or "Proprietary Drivers" depending on what tool you use to manage your installed drivers. But if you did need to install it, you'd need to look up the package that provides it for your Linux distro: for example, in Ubuntu the package is called "xserver-xorg-video-intel". Then you can install it with your package manager, like "sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-intel".
liked , and make grey your bell . thanks for tutorial. makee my zorin os with gtx 1050 much smoothless. thanks you so much....................................
@@BitGoblin I have seen your video, very good, but I have a question. I am a computer scientist, software developer and in November 2021 I bought an asus tuf f15 gaming notebook, not to play but for performance. I added a second hard drive and now I keep Windows on one and Linux/Ubuntu on the other with dual boot, everything works perfectly, except for bluetooth and the other thing that is the reason for writing to you, when I suspend or close the lid then when I resume session, the screen stays black, do you know why?
There could be many causes for this, but I would start with running "journalctl -r" in a terminal and searching for suspend by typing /suspend and hitting enter. It could be there's a service that is preventing the screen from waking. Let me know what you find!
@@BitGoblin machine owner key, it asks if you want to install third party drivers (which i ignore while installing ubuntu) but that's ok it's not that complicated. Thank you for the video.
