Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, the NVIDIA 340.24 GPU driver for Linux has been released recently, coming with support for G-Sync, fixed some bugs regarding WineHQ, got the nvidia-settings package updated, and received some optimizations and support for new graphical cards. For a full list of improvements and new supported GPUs, see the changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install the Nvidia 340.24 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-x86/340.24/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-340.24.run
For 64 bit systems:
$ wget us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/340.24/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.24.run
Set execution permissions:
$ sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-*-340.24.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-*-340.24.run
Uber-noob here. I got
ERROR: this .run file is intended for the
Linux-x86 platform, but you appear to be
running on Linux-x86_64. Aborting installation.
After running
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-*-340.24.run
you have downloaded the 32 bit version on a 64 bit system
340.24 is buggy on gnome 3, fedora 20.
system gtx 560 ti, core i5, 8gb, 1tb hd
it wreaked havoc with firefox 31, menu selection lags mouse mouvement.
on certain website, there is flickering, when you go back a page. have small pauses.
nautilus lag in displaying folders. Not a great release.
these problems are not present in 331.79