Installing Latest Nvidia Drivers on World’s Best Looking Linux Distro(Deepin OS)

Linux is a great operating system when it comes to performance, stability and Security. But what if i tell you it can also look beautiful like other successful OS like macOS and windows. Yes! I am talking about new debian based linux distro named Deepin OS

Having Nvidia GPU? and want to install Latest Drivers?

Now, if you search something like “install nvidia driver on deepin” you might found dozens of blogs focused on installing its drivers easy way by its graphics driver manager but honestly, that will not install latest nvidia drivers so in this blog i would like to introduce you to a method of installing nvidia drivers manually but easy way it will take couple of minutes if you have a good internet connection.

so let’s get started!

Step-1:Downloading Nvidia Driver For Your Card

first of all we would head over to download page of nvidia drivers and choose appropriate nvidia drivers for your card, mine was Nvidia Geforce 1050Ti OC edition and select linux64 as operating system and hit search, download the first result.

Step-2:Disabling Nouveau Driver and Lightdm

This step is important! you cannot install nvidia driver until and unless your fallback driver such as Nouveau server and lightdm is running.

so logout of GUI Mode by pressing

Ctrl+Alt+F2 (works on DeepinOS) or Ctrl+Alt+F1(works on Other Distro)

Now log back using your username and password.

after you login successfully now execute the following commands.

sudo bash -c “echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf”

sudo bash -c “echo options nouveau modeset=0 >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf”

now reboot your system by typing

sudo reboot

after rebooting you will come back to your gui mode and you will notice your system resolution is changed and looks like old pc but not to worry it will be fixed in a moment.

again go back to non GUI mode by pressing

Ctrl+Alt+F2 (works on DeepinOS) or Ctrl+Alt+F1(works on Other Distro)

Now log back using your username and password.

after you login successfully now execute the following commands.

sudo service lightdm stop

this will stop last conflicting instance of graphics server.

Step-3:Last Step executing nvidia Driver Installer you downloaded in first step

Assuming you are still in non GUI mode and you have your nvidia installer in Downloads Directory execute following commands.

cd Downloads

sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64–430.50.run

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64–430.50.run

Voila! Your Installer will ask you few questions proceed with them accordingly and after installer finish installing.

again run

sudo reboot

Well doneYou have successfully Installed Latest Nvidia Drivers in your Deepin OS