How I installed Nvidia RTX 4050 Ubuntu 24.10 driver

With a lot of struggle, I managed to

I’ll give you the step by step of what I did

First I uninstalled all the drivers in recovery mode in grub

sudo apt remove --purge nvidia*

soon after

I installed nvidia-settings

“sudo apt install nvidia-settings”

Important (don’t install nvidia drivers yet)

Now install only the Intel graphics driver in my case.

“sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers”

“sudo apt update & sudo apt upgrade -y”

“sudo reboot”

then install “sudo apt install mesa-utils”

Then I forced the Intel driver on Wayland

“sudo nano /etc/default/grub”

Locate the line that starts with “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT”

and add: i915.modeset=1

It will look like this: "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash i915.modeset=1”

then save and exit and use the command

“sudo update-grub”

“sudo reboot”

At this point you can check if you are recognizing your integrated graphics card

with this command

"LSPCI -K | grep -EA3 ‘VGA|3D’ glxinfo | grep “OpenGL renderer” glxinfo | grep “OpenGL renderer”

Now let’s install the nvidia driver “sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall” “sudo reboot”

Now we’ll be back

“sudo nano /etc/default/grub”

Locate the line that starts with “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT”

Change to “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash nvidia-drm.modeset=1”” Save and exit

“sudo update-grub”

“sudo reboot”

after “Sudo Prime-Select Nvidia” “sudo reboot”

Thank you for your How-To.

DISCLAIMER: This is not the recommended way to install NVIDIA drivers.

The recommended way is to follow the instructions that come as part of the README when you look for the correct driver version for your system on our driver download pages.

Thanks.