Install NVIDIA Driver 440.82 In Ubuntu / LinuxMint Via PPA

This tutorial will be helpful for beginners to install NVIDIA Driver 440.82 in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 19.10, Ubuntu 18.04 and LinuxMint

Nvidia Linux Display Driver is a proprietary, yet freely distributed OpenGL video driver that aims to offer support for Nvidia graphics cards on any Linux kernel-based operating system.

Changelog in NVIDIA Driver 440.82

Added a workaround for Steam Play title DOOM Eternal, which overrides application requested memory locations, to ensure performance-critical resources be placed in video memory.
Allow presenting from queue families which only expose VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT when using XCB in addition to Xlib surfaces.
Fixed a bug that caused render-offloaded applications to crash on exit.

Fixed a driver installation failure on Linux kernel 5.6 release candidates, where the NVIDIA kernel module failed to build with error “implicit declaration of function ‘timespec_to_ns,getrawmonotonic'”.
getnstimeofday,struct timeval'”.

How to Install NVIDIA Driver 440.82 in Ubuntu / LinuxMint

Step 1: Verify the model of NVIDIA graphic card

# ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001C03sv00001043sd000085ABbc03sc00i00
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
model : GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB]
driver : nvidia-driver-390 – distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-435 – distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-440 – distro non-free recommended
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau – distro free builtin

From the above output, we can see the recommended driver is nvidia-driver-440 and we can install that.

Step 2: Add the proprietary GPU drivers PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

Step 3: Update the repository

sudo apt update

Step 4: Install NVIDIA Driver 440.82

sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver-440

Once the installation is done, reboot the server and the settings will be reflected