Before we install NVIDIA gpu, we need to make sure Nouveau which is turned off.
- Check the status.
lsmod | grep nouveau
sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
With the following contents:
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
Regenerate the kernel initramfs:
sudo update-initramfs -u
- adjust the resolution
sudo vim /etc/default/grub
Find this line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
Change to: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"
Also, find this line: #GRUB_GFXMODE=800x4001 (the value maybe not the same.)
Change to: GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080
Update it:
sudo update-grub
- Reboot and check the status again
Normally we do not need to turn off it during installing the GPU driver for newer computers.
Here is a very primitive environment that it did not install anything after I installed the Ubuntu 20.04 operating system. My GPU is RTX 2070 super.
I check the status of nouveau (turn on), and running kernel version compilered by gcc version and the gcc version which was installed by build-essential.
I installed the GPU driver version which is v510 by the apt command (Not the file downloaded from website i.e., NVIDIA-XXX.run).
In the installation, I encountered the MOK stage, but that was okay.
Reboot it, and check the gpu status by nvidia-smi.
Here is detail configuration for this computer.
- https://hackmd.io/@Chieh/B1OP54uZq
- https://www.itread01.com/article/1535599424.html
- https://blog.csdn.net/wf19930209/article/details/81877822
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/841876/how-to-disable-nouveau-kernel-driver
- https://blog.csdn.net/weixin_42149550/article/details/110845799
- https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/373133529