RTX 2080 Notebook Linux Driver

Graphics / Linux Linux
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I have an Alienware m17 laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 and a GeForce RTX 2080 Notebook GPU. I am trying to figure out which NVIDIA driver version is compatible with my GPU for Linux. I tried to find the correct version through the official “Download Drivers” portal (Official Drivers | NVIDIA) but it seems that there are no Linux drivers currently supported.

I tried downloading the Linux driver for the (desktop) GeForce RTX 2080 GPU, but this just led to the “login loop” problem on Ubuntu, so I ended up switching to the latest version I could find in the official Ubuntu archive (nvidia-384), but that doesn’t seem to be fully compatible either.

I found a post in the GeForce forum (https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1099282/geforce-rtx-2080-notebooks-driver-for-linux-/) which suggested a particular driver, but this seemed to be the same version (418) that I had already tried, which was unsuccessful.

If someone could point me to the right NVIDIA driver to use for my GPU, that would be great. Thanks!

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Hello,

The latest RTX 2080 Max-Q driver is 418.43.

[url]https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/142958/en-us[/url]

Best,
Tom

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Thanks for your response! I did try installing the NVIDIA driver suggested but unfortunately ran into the same “login loop” issue that I had before.

However, I did manage to get things working by following the guidance of this post (https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1025402/linux/ubuntu14-04-install-graphic-driver-failed/), which suggests that only versions from a PPA or from the repos should be used on a laptop with NVIDIA Optimus (such as mine, which has both an integrated GPU and a discrete GPU). I ended up installing both the nvidia-415 (from the graphics PPA) and nvidia-prime packages on Ubuntu and things seem to work properly now.

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Glad you found a workaround. Thanks for sharing.