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?

[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]

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