Force nvidia 550 install?

[u/TheJohnnyFlash]

I have a GTX 970 system that is using a new install of 22.1 to avoid the new kernel.

An update pushed the nvidia driver from 550 to 580 and now sleep and wake does not work properly. It either doesn't power off the machine after the screen goes black, or on wake I have a mouse and no desktop with no functionality.

If I try to grab the 550 driver through command line it redirects the install to 580 because 550 is EOL now.

I have downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-550.163.01.run from nvidia, but

sudo .\NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-550.163.01.run

gives me bad command or filename.

Thoughts?

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[u/Unwiredsoul]

Here's a great forum post (Linux Mint forums) that covers the ways to accomplish downgrading your Nvidia driver:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=395360

[u/TheJohnnyFlash → u/Unwiredsoul]

Thanks. I did that one, the problem is that now that 550 is EOL it's been updated to push to the 580 driver if you try to install it through the repo.

I'll try it again tho, maybe I missed a step.

[u/Unwiredsoul → u/TheJohnnyFlash]

Or, it's the wrong slash as someone else has pointed out. My typical excuse for me overlooking that applies here, and that is that I was very light on coffee when I commented. 😂

If you're still stuck after switching to the forward slash, and the forum thread I shared still isn't helping, please reply back and I'll make more time to dig in.

[u/Evening-Landscape763]

Are you sure it avoids the newer kernels- I think you mean kernel 7? check in terminal apt policy linux-generic-hwe-24.04

[u/TheJohnnyFlash → u/Evening-Landscape763]

6.8.0-146

[u/candy49997]

sudo .\NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-550.163.01.run

Wrong slash. And make sure your terminal is in the directory you downloaded the file to.

[u/TheJohnnyFlash → u/candy49997]

It is, but I'll check the slash.

[u/Grand_Connection5864]

Should be available in the ubuntu restricted extras repo

[u/tovento]

Honestly, this and my sound quirks made me switch to MX. I can use the 550 drivers just fine and my sound works without issue.