MSI geforce gtx 1050 2g oc driver on linux?

[ozcjosh]

would the driver for this card work on ubuntu or mint?

[C2Dan88]

Yes.

DO NOT GET THE DRIVER FROM NVIDIA SITE!

Install the driver from the Driver Manager screen.

[Cathulhu]

What driver are you talking about?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

NVIDIA Geforce Driver....

[ozcjosh]

C2Dan88 eredeti hozzászólása:

Yes.

DO NOT GET THE DRIVER FROM NVIDIA SITE!

Install the driver from the Driver Manager screen.

thanks

Also, what about the drivers for a GIGABYTE GA-H270M-DS3H motherboard?

[C2Dan88]

There is no motherboard specific drivers for linux. The H270 chipset driver will backed into the kernal.

[vadim]

C2Dan88 eredeti hozzászólása:

DO NOT GET THE DRIVER FROM NVIDIA SITE!

Why is that? I always install drivers namely from site. Its best way to always have latest versions including beta. Ubuntu 16.04 still has 375.66 in the repository (they are latest in the long-lived branch) while you can install either 381.22 stable or 384.47 beta from nvidia's site
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/533434/linux/current-graphics-driver-releases/
To be honest, there is no much difference in most cases. Unless you have one of the latest video cards or want to have driver which supports latest features like extended API calls.

[C2Dan88]

When I downloaded and installed Nvidia driver from their site it messed up my install. X11 would not start and would only show the terminal and I could not get the desktop environment to show.

I found a forum post about this and the replies said to never install driver from nvidia site and only install driver from your distros repository.

To get the latest drivers use the Grapic Drivers ppa https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers

[carl]

I wouldn't say never but in general it's better to use the software download application/tool that comes packaged with your particular linux distribution whether a driver or other application. Some script will check for any missing libraries you need to run it and install those too and it will come only from the official software repositories (I know you can add your repositories). I mean I see the odd posts with people asking why Steam Client on Linux isn't working working for them. Because they downloaded straight from Valve website.

Think of it as downloading all your apps through the Windows Store. If you side load then you're on your own and taking a little bit of a chance. You'll need to remember to update the proprietary Nvidia driver manually and there's a chance the driver can cause conflict with the system after an update to the linux kernel. Linux has its own Nouveau open source driver for Nvidia video cards.

Having said that at times I've had to install the proprietary Nvidia driver for newer hardware (GTX 1080 when new) as the open source driver hadn't been updated yet. I've not benchamrked anything but I expect the proprietary driver to perform better than open source though.

[MaddDoktor [Linux]]

For Ubuntu or Mint (based on Ubuntu) it is best to use nvidia packages from the repos (not .run file from nvidia.com), because then everything is compatible and should update automatically (although not to different version, just if that version of nvidia driver has updates). If you need newer version of nvidia drivers than are in standard reposititories add graphics-drivers ppa which at current time has packages through nvidia-384. Once you add the ppa per instructions, you can go to Additional Drivers and that should show the most recent drivers they have.

https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

I am currently running nvidia-381 package for GTX 1060 in 64-bit Ubuntu 16.10.

The only time I had issues was when a GT 430 from a cheap manufacturer was physically failing shortly after its 1 year warranty expired. No problems with repo or ppa nvidia drivers new enough to support EVGA GTX 550 Ti, MSI GTX 750 Ti, or current Asus GTX 1060.