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I'm having troubles installing NVIDIA drivers 410 on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine.

I tried installing them via driver manager and it didn't work, so I tried installing them via runfile and it didn't work either.

Searching on the forums I've seen someone who solved by adding nvidia-drm.modeset=1 to /etc/default/grub, nothing changed.

The TTY1 gets stuck always with the drivers. If I boot with just nomodeset I can access others TTY and use the bash (then purge nvidia* and use Noveau).

I've tried booting nvidia-drm.modeset=1 with both quiet splash and nomodeset and it isn't working.

Any suggestion?

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  • What kind of error did you get with the GUI installer? You can also try sudo apt install nvidia-current
    – Aaron Franke
    Jan 23, 2019 at 2:54

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Okay, I've managed to solve the problem on my own. Steps:

1 Install drivers

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-396

2) edit GRUB

nano /etc/default/grub

Edit GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT into

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nvidia-drm.modeset=1"

Then:

sudo update-grub

3) edit GDM settings

sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf

Remove the # from # WaylandEnable=false

Hope this will help someone.

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  • I tried this, and I can get to the LUKS decryption screen, albeit with the wrong native resolution, then I proceed to the Ubuntu logo, but it stops loading at three of five dots.
    – slhck
    Dec 30, 2018 at 10:16
  • I think this could be an issue of Gnome and nVidia. I've tried using Kubuntu (same as Ubuntu, but with KDE) and it has no problem even with LUKS.
    – Alberto Zurini
    Dec 31, 2018 at 11:35

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