#Help needed to install Nvidia 470 drivers on ubuntu

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tribal spear
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I have a macbook pro mid 2012 with an nvidia gpu, the required driver version is 470, it keeps failing and i cant install it.

cedar nebula
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You don't

opal cargoBOT
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NOTICE: Very new hardware (e.g. RTX 50 series) may have spotty support on older or LTS releases/builds of Linux distributions. Double check your distro if you are not comfortable with manually tinkering.

It is assumed you know how to create and boot from a Linux distro's installation media (including but not limited to downloading ISOs, burning/imaging ISOs to a DVD/USB drive, and disabling Secure Boot temporarily)

  • Unless you know what you are doing, and unlike on Windows, do NOT use the binary packages downloaded from the NVIDIA website. Check your distro's docs/wiki on how to install NVIDIA drivers correctly.
  • Change your communication protocol to Wayland (for performance) if your distro defaults to the old X11 (for compatibility). Most newer distros and NVIDIA drivers should just work, but a handful of distros still do not have a fully working DE with Wayland or the driver it ships with.
  • If the installer or your installed OS boots into a black screen, try using an alternative driver mode, graphics mode, or setup mode. Some distros do not have functioning in-box drivers for newer NVIDIA graphics cards.
  • If your laptop relies on hybrid graphics, make sure that your drivers, desktop environment, and communication protocol are up to date.
  • DLSS support requires an up-to-date version of Proton; DLSS Frame Generation may not function correctly.
  • Usually, GPU offloading will be handled automatically by DXVK, VKD3D-Proton or Winevulkan for non-native games, and PRIME for native games.
  • PRIME is supported by the closed NVIDIA driver (for most current GPUs) and the Nouveau driver (for legacy GPUs).
  • Do not use older, unmaintained software such as nvidia-xrun or Bumblebee.
cedar nebula
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As you are using an older laptop with an older GPU driver, old Linux drivers are basically awful/unusable. and it's not supported on laptops on older driver versions

cedar nebula
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In fact Ubuntu has removed 470 driver support