Hello,
Before the current ubuntu upgrade, i used a proprietary driver, but now, the command “ubuntu-drivers devices” return an empty result. I’m tempted tu use the ppa, but i fear it could break my system.
OS: ubuntu 25.04 Nvidia GTX 1050Ti
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Based on my experience using ppas for normal apps and breaking my system I would say don’t.
Thanks for the advice.
It’s odd that no drivers show up. Check Ubuntu’s bug tracker for anything related. You could use a PPA if you really need a driver but you have to be careful. Keep track of what packages are updated from the PPA and use
ppa-purgeto get rid of them before upgrading to the next Ubuntu release. Breakage is possible and even likely. If you want to reduce this sort of headache, you could use Ubuntu LTS.Actually, i just tried to install with the ppa, but it didn’t worked
-Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.14.0-15-generic (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/550.144.03/build/make.log for more information. dpkg: erreur de traitement du paquet nvidia-dkms-550 (--configure) : le sous-processus paquet nvidia-dkms-550 script post-installation installé a renvoyé un état de sortie d'erreur 10 dpkg: des problèmes de dépendances empêchent la configuration de nvidia-driver-550 : nvidia-driver-550 dépend de nvidia-dkms-550 (<= 550.144.03-1); cependant : Le paquet nvidia-dkms-550 n'est pas encore configuré. nvidia-driver-550 dépend de nvidia-dkms-550 (>= 550.144.03); cependant : Le paquet nvidia-dkms-550 n'est pas encore configuré. dpkg: erreur de traitement du paquet nvidia-driver-550 (--configure) : problèmes de dépendances - laissé non configuré Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour initramfs-tools (0.147ubuntu1) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.14.0-15-generic Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour libc-bin (2.41-6ubuntu1) ... Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour man-db (2.13.0-1) ... Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour desktop-file-utils (0.28-1) ... Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution : nvidia-dkms-550 nvidia-driver-550 Erreur : Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)Then i looked into the log and i saw many errors message, and after some research, i found it was because the driver is not compatible with my actual kernel.
TLDR: it was a bad idea.
i don’t know french but try sudo dpkg --configure -a
or purging the packages altogether before trying again.
it should be your last resort.
does the software & drivers applet show anything?
Nope.
you could try manually purging the currently installed package, then rebooting.
if that doesn’t work, reinstalling the official metapackage manually. i mean nvidia-driver-570-open (or whatever it is for your version)
