Title says it all. I want to drive my Nvidia Quadro P4200 with v415. Lots of sites give advice, but:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa Fresh drivers from upstream, currently shipping Nvidia.
## Current Status
Current long-lived branch release: `nvidia-410` (410.66)
Dropped support for Fermi series ()
Old long-lived branch release: `nvidia-390` (390.87)
For GF1xx GPUs use `nvidia-390` (390.87)
For G8x, G9x and GT2xx GPUs use `nvidia-340` (340.107)
For NV4x and G7x GPUs use `nvidia-304` (304.137) End-Of-Life!
Support timeframes for Unix legacy GPU releases:
## What we're working on right now:
- Normal driver updates
- Help Wanted: Mesa Updates for Intel/AMD users, ping us if you want to help do this work, we're shorthanded.
## WARNINGS:
This PPA is currently in testing, you should be experienced with packaging before you dive in here:
Volunteers welcome!
### How you can help:
## Install PTS and benchmark your gear:
sudo apt-get install phoronix-test-suite
Run the benchmark:
phoronix-test-suite default-benchmark openarena xonotic tesseract gputest unigine-valley
and then say yes when it asks you to submit your results to openbechmarking.org. Then grab a cup of coffee, it takes a bit for the benchmarks to run. Depending on the version of Ubuntu you're using it might preferable for you to grabs PTS from upstream directly:
## Share your results with the community:
Post a link to your results (or any other feedback to):
Remember to rerun and resubmit the benchmarks after driver upgrades, this will allow us to gather a bunch of data on performance that we can share with everybody.
If you run into old documentation referring to other PPAs, you can help us by consolidating references to this PPA.
If someone wants to go ahead and start prototyping on `software-properties-gtk` on what the GUI should look like, please start hacking!
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sudo apt install nvidia-415 # There is no such package
sudo apt install nvidia-drivers-415 # There is no such package
sudo apt install nvidia-graphics-drivers-415 # There is no such packageThese drivers are referenced in articles and press releases but no love. For example:
$ sudo apt install nvidia-graphics-drivers-415
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E: Unable to locate package nvidia-graphics-drivers-415And...
$ sudo apt-cache search 415
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libnvidia-compute-415 - NVIDIA libcompute packageI do not see the driver package listed.
11 Answer
You messed up the repository name a little bit. The correct set of commands should be:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-415Please note that there is some naming error in the PPA: The wesite lists the package as "nvidia-graphics-drivers-415" however the package in the PPA is "nvidia-driver-415"
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