{"id":4039,"date":"2014-10-04T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2016-05-08T14:02:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T14:02:48","slug":"install-latest-nvidia-340-46-via-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/install-latest-nvidia-340-46-via-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Latest Nvidia Driver 340.46 via PPA in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nvidia_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nvidia_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Nvidia 340.46 PPA\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nvidia_logo.jpg 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/nvidia_logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest NVIDIA Linux driver has reached 340.46 with a few bug fixes. Here&#8217;s how to easily install it in Ubuntu 14.10 or Ubuntu 14.04 via PPA repository.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s new in NVIDIA 340.46:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;\">Fixed an OpenGL issue that could cause glReadPixels() operations to be improperly clipped when resizing composited application windows, potentially leading to momentary X freezes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;\">Fixed a bug that could prevent the GLSL compiler from correctly evaluating some expressions when compiling shaders.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;\">Fixed a bug that could cause nvidia-installer to crash while attempting to run nvidia-xconfig on systems where that utility is missing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;\">Added option UseSysmemPixmapAccel to control the use of GPU acceleration for X drawing operations on pixmaps allocated in system memory.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Release note and supported GPUs are available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/driverResults.aspx\/78469\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\">the Nvidia page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Install Nvidia 340.46 via PPA:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Besides using the official installer, we can easily install the driver from a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~graphics-drivers\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\">Launchpad PPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To add the PPA &#038; install Nvidia 340.46, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> to open terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers\/ppa\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install nvidia-340<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/install-nvidia-from-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/install-nvidia-from-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"install-nvidia-from-ppa\" width=\"580\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/install-nvidia-from-ppa.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/install-nvidia-from-ppa-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When done, restart your computer.<\/p>\n<p>If for some reason the driver does not work properly for your machine, remove it via:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove nvidia-340\n\nsudo apt-get autoremove\n\nsudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:graphics-drivers\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p>Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get into console (or boot into recovery mode) if the new driver mess up the graphical session.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest NVIDIA Linux driver has reached 340.46 with a few bug fixes. Here&#8217;s how to easily install it in Ubuntu 14.10 or Ubuntu 14.04 via PPA repository. What&#8217;s new in NVIDIA 340.46: Fixed an OpenGL issue that could cause glReadPixels() operations to be improperly clipped when resizing composited application windows, potentially leading to momentary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-nvidia-driver"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}