Want to Install Nvidia Drivers

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Ubuntu Version:
25.10

Desktop Environment (if applicable):
GNOME

Problem Description:
I’d like to install the Nvidia drivers for my graphics card.
If I go to software Update → Settings → Additional Drivers, it tells me that no additional drivers are available.

As far as I know, right now the PC has the Nouveau driver installed, so it should be possible to switch to the Nvidia one.

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Hello tb75252 - Welcome to Ubuntu Discourse

Please show us what hardware we are working with.
Post back -between code tags - the outputs of terminal commands:

lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12
sudo lshw -C display

-see what tale gets told-

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Tread carefully when looking to install NVIDIA drivers. There appears to be issues experienced with compatibility between the newer Kernel versions and the drivers.

You may wish to review some of the issues raised in the following, so as to get your head wrapped around the problems and plan your approach to a solution that best fits your circumstance:

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$ lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 620] [10de:0f01] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:0990]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 26
Memory at ea000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Memory at e8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau

01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0bea] (rev a1)

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$ sudo lshw -C display
[sudo: authenticate] Password:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GF108 [GeForce GT 620]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=nouveau latency=0 resolution=1440,900
resources: irq:26 memory:ea000000-eaffffff memory:e0000000-e7ffffff memory:e8000000-e9ffffff ioport:2000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff
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Hoo Boy -

Old card that is no longer supported in tree - takes the 390 version driver. The drivers-tool was not lying to you.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/results/
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142/~/support-timeframes-for-unix-legacy-gpu-releases

The last release that offered support for the GT620 card was 22.04

Now all this said there are two sites that “say” they have patches to work with the later kernels.

However, I can not vouch for these methods as I have not used either. Use at your own risk.
What do you hope to gain that the open source nouveau driver does not provide ?

-is the risk worth the gain-

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