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by Martin Brinkmann on June 30, 2017 in Tutorials - Last Update: July 01, 2017 - 28 comments
When it comes to drivers for Nvidia graphics cards, most computer users probably either use the drivers that are included with their operating system, or install a driver package for the card from Nvidia.
These driver package has grown over the years. It includes the driver that is required, and then other components that may or may not be required depending on how the computer is used.
The Nvidia Graphics Driver will install3D Vision components, an HD audio driver, PhysX System Software, or GeForce Experience for instance when you don't select custom installation to turn these off.
But even if you disable all components but the graphics driver, you will get some extra services and Telemetry installed on the system.
Installing only the Nvidia graphics driver
One of the things that users who are concerned about this increase in components may do is install only the graphics driver, and that without running the Nvidia installer at all.
The following instructions walk you through the steps of installing only that driver and nothing else. Please note that you need to be sure that you don't need any of the extra components, as they won't be installed.
Also note that the driver installation will still add components, such as the two services Nvidia Display Container LS and Nvidia Telemetry Container. Make sure you remove those or at least disable them.
Step 1: Remove the old Nvidia driver from the system
It is recommended that you remove the old driver completely from the computer before you install the new driver on it.
Check out our guide on uninstalling Nvidia drivers completely from a Windows machine. Basically what you do is use a program called Display Driver Uninstaller for that.
Step 2: Download the latest Nvidia driver
Head over to Nvidia's official driver downloads website, and fill out the fields there to download the driver for your video card and operating system.
Step 3: Extract the driver
I have used the excellent software Bandizip for that, but other archive programs may work as well. With Bandizip, all you need to do is right-click on the downloaded driver file, e.g. 382.53-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe, and select 'open with Bandizip'.
The archive opens, and you may extract the content of the package to the local hard drive.
Step 4: Install the driver on Windows
You need to open the Windows Device Manager as you will be installing the driver using the Control Panel applet. The easiest way to open the Device Manager is to tap on the Windows-key, type hdwwiz.cpl, and hit the Enter-key.
Locate your video card there, you find it under Display Adapters, and right-click on it and select Properties.
Switch to the driver tab, and click on the 'update driver' button that is listed there on the page.
Select 'browse my computer for driver software' on the next window, and select the Display.Driver folder as the folder that you want Windows to search for drivers for the video card.
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Hit the next button, and wait for Windows to finish scanning the folder for suitable drivers. It will pick up the display driver, and install it on the machine.
You should get a 'Windows has successfully updated your drivers' notification in the end.
This indicates that Windows has installed the new driver for the Nvidia graphics card, and will use it from that moment on.
Closing Words
If you just need the graphics card driver, then this is one option to ensure that only it gets installed. While you can run the Nvidia installer, uncheck all options, and clean up the system afterwards for pretty much the same effect, it is probably easier and faster to do it this way instead.
Now You: How do you install graphics drivers on your systems?
Install only the driver for Nvidia graphics cards
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The guide walks you through the steps of installing only the display driver for Nvidia graphics cards on Windows without using the Nvidia driver installer.
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In this article, I will share some of my experience on installing NVIDIA driver and CUDA on Linux OS. Here I mainly use Ubuntu as example. Comments for CentOS/Fedora are also provided as much as I can.
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Install NVIDIA Graphics Driver via apt-get
In Ubuntu systems, drivers for NVIDIA Graphics Cards are already provided in the official repository. Installation is as simple as one command.
For ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS, the latest version is 352. To install the driver, excute
sudo apt-get nvidia-352 nvidia-modprobe , and then reboot the machine.
For ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS, the latest version is 375. To install the driver, excute
sudo apt-get nvidia-375 nvidia-modprobe , and then reboot the machine.
The
nvidia-modprobe utility is used to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create NVIDIA character device files automatically everytime your machine boots up.
It is recommended for new users to install the driver via this way because it is simple. However, it has some drawbacks:
Install NVIDIA Graphics Driver via runfile
For advanced user who wants to get the latest version of the driver, get rid of the reinstallation issue caused bby dkms, or using Linux distributions that do not have nvidia drivers provided in the repositories, installing from runfile is recommended.
Remove Previous Installations (Important)
One might have installed the driver via
apt-get . So before reinstall the driver from runfile, uninstalling previous installations is required. Executing the following scripts carefully one by one.
Download the Driver
The latest NVIDIA driver for Linux OS can be fetched from NVIDIA's official website.The first one in the list, i.e. Latest Long Lived Branch version for Linux x86_64/AMD64/EM64T, is suitable for most case.
If you want to down load the driver directly in a Linux shell, the script below would be useful.
Detailed installation instruction can be found in the download page via a README hyperlink in the ADDITIONAL INFORMATION tab. I have also summarized key steps below.
Install Dependencies
Software required for the runfile are officially listed here. But this page seems to be stale and not easy to follow.
For Ubuntu, installing the following dependencies is enough.
As a summary, excuting
sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc-multilib dkms to install all dependencies.
Required packages for CentOS are
epel-release dkms libstdc++.i686 . Execute yum install epel-release dkms libstdc++.i686 .
Required packages for Fedora are
dkms libstdc++.i686 kernel-devel . Execute dnf install dkms libstdc++.i686 kernel-devel .
Creat Blacklist for Nouveau Driver
Create a file at
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf with the following contents:
Note: It is also possible for the NVIDIA installation runfile to creat this blacklist file automatically. Excute the runfile and follow instructions when an error realted Nouveau appears.
Then,
Stop lightdm/gdm/kdm
After the computer is rebooted. We need to stop the desktop manager before excuting the runfile to install the driver.
lightdm is the default desktop manager in Ubuntu. If GNOME or KDE desktop environment is used, installed desktop manager will then be gdm or kdm .
Excuting the Runfile
After above batch of preparition, we can eventually start excuting the runfile. So this is why I, from the very begining, recommend new users to install the driver via
apt-get .
Note:
Check the Installation
After a succesful installation,
nvidia-smi command will report all your CUDA-capable devices in the system.
Common Errors and Solutions
Additional Notesnvidia-smi -pm 1 can enable the persistent mode, which will save some time from loading the driver. It will have significant effect on machines with more than 4 GPUs.
nvidia-smi -e 0 can disable ECC on TESLA products, which will provide about 1/15 more video memory. Reboot is reqired for taking effect. nvidia-smi -e 1 can be used to enable ECC again.
nvidia-smi -pl <some power value> can be used for increasing or decrasing the TDP limit of the GPU. Increasing will encourage higher GPU Boost frequency, but is somehow DANGEROUS and HARMFUL to the GPU. Decreasing will help to same some power, which is useful for machines that does not have enough power supply and will shutdown unintendedly when pull all GPU to their maximum load.
-i <GPUID> can be added after above commands to specify individual GPU.
These commands can be added to
/etc/rc.local for excuting at system boot.
Install CUDA
Installing CUDA from runfile is much simpler and smoother than installing the NVIDIA driver. It just involves copying files to system directories and has nothing to do with the system kernel or online compilation. Removing CUDA is simply removing the installation directory. So I personally does not recommend adding NVIDIA's repositories and install CUDA via
apt-get or other package managers as it will not reduce the complexity of installation or uninstallation but increase the risk of messing up the configurations for repositories.
The CUDA runfile installer can be downloaded from NVIDIA's websie. But what you download is a package the following three components:
To extract above three components, one can execute the runfile installer with
--extract option. Then, executing the second one will finish the CUDA installation. Installation of the samples are also recommended because useful tool such as deviceQuery and p2pBandwidthLatencyTest are provided.
Scripts for installing CUDA Toolkit are summarized below.
After the installation finishes, configure runtime library.
It is also recommended for Ubuntu users to append string
/usr/local/cuda/bin to system file /etc/environments so that nvcc will be included in $PATH . This will take effect after reboot.
Install cuDNN
The recommended way for installing cuDNN is to first copy the tgz file to /usr/local and then extract it, and then remove the tgz file if necessary. This method will preserve symbolic links.At last, execute sudo ldconfig to update the shared library cache.
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