
How do I Install Nvidia’s Proprietary Drivers? Overviewīefore installing proprietary/closed source Nvidia® drivers you need to determine if your graphics card is supported by the current GeForce® driver and if so, which version of the driver.

In the sample output from lspci, we can establish the Product Type is GeForce and the Model number is GT 330M ( GT216M is the code name). NOTE: the output from lspci may also include output from other PCI devices (for example Nvidia HDMI audio), these additional miscellaneous items can be ignored in this context of this article. If a PCI graphics card has been identified, the output will look something like this (though not exactly like this!): 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216M (rev a2) Lspci | grep -i E "nvidia|video|vga|3d" Generic (all graphics Cards) sudo update-pciids The first command will update your database of PCI IDs, the second interrogates all PCI device in your computer, looking for specified keywords (relating to graphics cards): Nvidia Specific sudo update-pciids

If you are unsure which graphics card your computer possesses open Terminology and run the following commands. Many new Bodhi Linux users seem to have the same questions relating to Graphics Cards (especially Nvidia), so here are the answers to a few of them.

How do I Install Nvidia’s Proprietary Drivers?.
