Install / Uninstall NVIDIA Driver 387.22 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint

In this Tutorial, I will tell you how to install the Latest stable version of NVIDIA Graphics driver 387.22 On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS  / 17.04 and LinuxMint 17 

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.

This version has been designed to be installed on computers supporting the 64-bit & 32-bit architecture.

This Version 387.22 released on 30th October 2017 with a fix of bugs and support to new GPU's

Support for New GPU

• GTX 1070Ti

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a regression that could cause driver errors when setting modes that include DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport devices.
• Added an nvidia.ko kernel module parameter, NVreg_EnableBacklightHandler, which can be used to enable experimental handling of laptop backlight brightness through /sys/class/backlight/. This handler overrides the ACPI-based one provided by the video.ko kernel module.
• Fixed a bug that could cause some eDP G-SYNC displays to flicker at low refresh rates.
• Fixed a bug that could cause OpenGL applications to crash after a prolonged DPMS sleep state on a monitor driven with PRIME Sync.
• Fixed a bug that artificially limited the maximum pixel clock to 300 MHz when using certain more capable DisplayPort to HDMI adapters.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the NVIDIA kernel modules from building for non-SMP Linux kernels.
• pdated the output of `nvidia-smi nvlink --status` to include reporting NVLink speed.
• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect PCI topology reporting in nvidia-smi on Intel Skylake systems.

For complete changelog refer this link

Installation steps

Step 1: Remove older version of NVIDIA

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*

Step 2: Reboot the system

Step 3: Download the Nvidia Driver 387.22

For 32bit

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/387.22/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-387.22.run

For 64 bit

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/387.22/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.22.run

Step 4: Switch to command prompt and stop the running Graphics session

Press Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6 for switching to command prompt

For Ubuntu

sudo service lightdm stop

sudo service gdm stop

For LinuxMint

sudo mdm stop

Step 4: Give execute permissions to the installer

sudo chmod 755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.22.run

Step 5: Install the Nvidia 387.22 driver

sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.22.run

After successful installation reboot the system.

Uninstallation of Nvidia driver 387.22

For uninstall run the below command

sudo NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.22.run --uninstall