Installing Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 16.04 for GTX1070

Installing Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 16.04.md

Installing Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 16.04 for GTX1070

Build Specification:

• Intel i7-6850K @ 3.60GHz
• GTX 1070

Prerequisites

• Fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04

Note - did not encrypt home directory or xda drive

• No packages installed yet
• Enter Desktop after standard boot of Ubuntu - not in safe mode or TTY space - just standard desktop

Setup

1. sudo apt-get remove nvidia*

2. sudo apt-get autoremove

3. sudo apt-get update

4. sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic vim

5. sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf and add the following lines:

    blacklist nouveau
   
    blacklist lbm-nouveau
   
    options nouveau modeset=0
   
    alias nouveau off
   
    alias lbm-nouveau off
   

6. echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf

7. sudo update-initramfs -u

8. cd ~/Downloads/

9. wget us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/384.90/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.90.run

10. chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.90.run

11. reboot

12. Once rebooted, go into TTY1 (CTRL+ALT+F1) and login

13. In root directory: mv ~/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.90.run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.90.run

14. sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop

15. sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.90.run (select yes to everything)

16. Once finished reboot

17. To test run: nvidia-smi - should show: NVIDIA-SMI 384.90 at the top

Sources: AllAboutLinux.eu