Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, the NVIDIA 343.22 GPU driver for Linux has been released recently, coming with support for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 GPUs and many fixes for the critical bugs from the previous versions.
In this article I will show you how to install the Nvidia 343.22 Stable drivers on the most popular Linux systems, including: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pinguy OS, LXLE, Linux Lite, Deepin, Peppermint, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mageia and OpenMandriva.
Because the drivers are not available via any repository, we have to download the binary files from the official site:
For 32 bit systems:
$ wget us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/343.22/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-343.22.run
For 64 bit systems:
$ wget us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/343.22/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-343.22.run
Set execution permissions:
$ sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-*-343.22.run
Kill the display manager, which can either be: kdm for KDE, gdm for Gnome, lightdm for LXDE and XFCE, mdm (for Linux Mint):
$ sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop
OR:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
OR:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop
OR:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/mdm stop
And finally, run the Nvidia binary file:
$ sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-*-343.22.run
I experienced only a bit of success using this method, my system does not recognize the sudo /etc/init.d/kdm command when I am going by your steps to installing the Nvidia Driver. As I am a Linux noob, I would greatly appreciate an answer…As your method seems to be a valid way to install the proper drivers.
since I do not know what desktop environment are you using, try this ones:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
OR:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop
and see which works.
Strange, few days back you could download 343.22 from the official website. Today I can´t find it there via the standard menus at their web site. Did they withdraw this version?
my wgets still works, so the links have not been changed.
Hi,
When I get to the ‘kill the display manager’ section my screen goes blank and I have to reboot. This is my first install with Linux (17 – cinnamon). Linux does not recognize my gtx970…thanks for the article.