Hi, so I know the software updater is currently down because Ubuntu is under attack or something, but yesterday (before I knew this) there was a brief window in which I was able run the software updater and it was prompting me to update my Nvidia drivers. I tried to but was unsucessful. However, since then my drivers are gone, somehow. I had the 580 version and I saw that 595 was the latest tested version, but now nothing shows up in the "Additional Drivers" sections of software and updates, wereas before I could see a bunch of driver options.
I can't play any videogames and Nvidia X Server settings was uninstalled, if I try to install it I get an error.
So yeah, is there a way I can at least revert to the 580 nvidia driver (I have an RTX 5080 btw)? I tried following the steps on the Ubuntu and Nvidia site but found them a bit confusing.
When I ran apt list nvidia-driver-580 I just got this: Listing... Done
Same thing happened when I ran apt list nvidia-driver-595 and apt list nvidia-driver-580 nvidia-driver-595
I would recommend disabling secure boot and the kernel will immediately see the nvidia drivers))
This is a classic Nvidia driver situation. The driver was updated and the signatures of the old driver were lost or changed. So I recommend the best and easiest option.
I believe I have secure boot disabled. A few months ago, when I was switiching to Zorin, I was having a really hard time installing it. I tried A LOT of different things, turns out all I needed to do was update my BIOS. Anyway, disabling secure boot was one of the first things I did. So I doubt that's the issue, unless secure boot enabled itself back on (not being sarcastic, can it actually happen?)
just go into the BIOS and disable the security boot after logging in, type nvidia-smi if there are details, congratulations, you have the driver installed, the kernel simply cannot load a non-proprietary driver at startup, it is considered foreign to the kernel until it receives the keys and is registered in the BIOS at startup.
PS.. here either bios or you don't have a driver, there can be no other reasons.
if you updated it, then you will definitely have it.
running these two doesn't return anything on the console, but I guess that's what's suppose to?
running this displays this error message: sudo: dkms: command not found
running sudo apt update results in these error messages at the end (But that's to be expected given that Ubuntu is under attack for a few days):
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble-updates/main/binary-armhf/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 2620:2d:4002:1::101 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble-security/main/binary-armhf/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 2620:2d:4002:1::101 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble-backports/main/binary-armhf/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 2620:2d:4002:1::101 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Running this results in the following error messages:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-driver-595
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-dkms-595
E: Unable to locate package nvidia-kernel-source-595
wow wow there's really something wrong with you..
do you really have a 5080 video card?
Problem with binary-armhf
ARMHF is an architecture for mobile processors or microcomputers like the Raspberry Pi.
sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-driver-595 nvidia-dkms-595 nvidia-kernel-source-595
in the team there is no architecture here ARMHF this is a simple command to reinstall the driver if you have a laptop, and that's why it's looking there.
for desktop PC!
You can fix it if you accidentally added it.
Yes, always worked fine on windows and on Zorin too until just yesterday (and not counting the difficulties I had installing zorin until I updated my BIOS).
That's when I ran sudo apt update, doesn't it just mean that it just couldn't look into those URLs? If ubuntu servers are down I would assume this is the reason for theses errors, not that something is wrong with my computer (bear in mind I have no actual ideia how this works)
Other than not being able to play video games, it's running just fine.
I have a desktop, so I should run these commands, right?:
I then had to hard shut down my PC, once I booted it back up once I got past the Loading Zorin screen, I just get a black screen with a white dash... I can't get to the Zorin login screen
The inscription is already bound to nouveau means that the Linux kernel is trying to load the proprietary NVIDIA driver, but the video card is already "occupied" by the standard free nouveau driver. They are literally fighting for control of the card, and because of this the system is "frozen".
at startup you can press Esc select your kernel - fix, and fix problems automatically this will roll back the system and remove one of the conflicting drivers.
If the driver installs, don't do anything else, just use it, but remember that 595 =24.04.1
595 is still beta 1!
590 =24.04.4
590 there have been 4 fixes already.
Slow down, what you mean? I pressed ESC on boot, I have 3 options Zorin OS, Advanced Options for Zorin OS and UEFI Firmware settings. What do I do from here to fix this issue?
