NVidia driver wont install

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OK, maybe this is a hot topic.

Typical scenario, I'm a Win10 user, and my mainboard wont work with Win11. I tried Mint 22.2, but it wouldn't install the NVidia 470 driver. Tried both GUI and terminal, it just bombs out with a generic error. I tried the suggestions, wine options, Secure boot disabled, etc.

I tried Mint 22.1, that worked just fine, NVidia installed and my dual monitors were working. But I was having issues running Dreamweaver under wine, very sluggish. I use Dreamweaver as my main tool of the trade, wont be changing.

Maybe Zorin would work better? Installed 18, then tried the NVidia driver, same deal, bombed out.

Its a GeForce GST 660 Ti card, a few years old but more than enough for my needs. If I need to upgrade the hardware to run Linux, I may as well upgrade the hardware and run Win11.

So hoping there is a fix for this? Please please. Zorin looks like the best of the picks at the moment, but it it wont work, then it doesnt work.

Glenn

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Zorin OS 17 has a higher chance of working with that card.
Have you tried that, yet?
Zorin OS 18 was only very recently released.

I also recommend you ensure that you are on Xorg at login (It should automatically be given your card).

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Welcome to the Forum!

Maybe You need an older Kernel for the Driver.

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According to info I was able to find, the ancient Nvidia 660 GPU, while it technically can run with Gnome 46, you are going to need the Legacy 470 driver. Here is the terminal command to install.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

sudo apt update

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-470

sudo reboot

Hope that works for you!

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Hi, about the same problem (and the same history about switching from windows to linux) as the one that started the topic.
My symptoms are some random freeze every couple of hours.

When I try the standard install procedure I get this

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and when I tried to install as suggested by StarTreker I get this

alfredo@alfredo-desktop:~$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver-470
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
nvidia-driver-470 is already the newest version (470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 3 not to upgrade.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up nvidia-dkms-470 (470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
INFO:Enable nvidia
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/dell_latitude
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/put_your_quirks_here
DEBUG:Parsing /usr/share/ubuntu-drivers-common/quirks/lenovo_thinkpad
Removing old nvidia-470.256.02 DKMS files...
Deleting module nvidia-470.256.02 completely from the DKMS tree.
Loading new nvidia-470.256.02 DKMS files...
Building for 6.14.0-33-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 6.14.0-33-generic
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.14.0-33-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/470.256.02/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package nvidia-dkms-470 (--configure):
installed nvidia-dkms-470 package post-installation script subprocess returned
error exit status 10
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nvidia-driver-470:
nvidia-driver-470 depends on nvidia-dkms-470 (<= 470.256.02-1); however:
Package nvidia-dkms-470 is not configured yet.
nvidia-driver-470 depends on nvidia-dkms-470 (>= 470.256.02); however:
Package nvidia-dkms-470 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package nvidia-driver-470 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142ubuntu25.5) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.14.0-33-generic
Errors were encountered while processing:
nvidia-dkms-470
nvidia-driver-470
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

After this porcedure now I see as a possible driver package the 390, which gives the same error.
I picked the 470 because that was the proposal of the installer, for a GT710.
also the NVIDIA drive library picks that one
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.256.02

Maybe I have some other issue, but not enough experience to identify it: I am a linux user since 72 hours...

please Scotty beam me up!

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Welcome to the Forum!

The Problem is that the Kernel is too new for the Nvidia Driver. For 390, You could try it with the 5.15 Kernel. For 470, You could try it with the same.

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Is the 5.15 kernel in the repo? I didn't find it. I think it is better to stay at Zorin 17 or another distribution that still offers 5.15 kernel.

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No, but You can use Mainline and install it.

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Being this a machine that will be used mainly for accounting there was no need for anything fancy, so I went for 5.10, again no install for 470.

I will try 5.15 in the weekend.

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ok, the installation doesn't go through and ends with the error window, but when the machine boots up next time it shows using the nvidia470 dirver.
currently on 5.10 as kernel.

Will test this setting till the next freeze