Nvidia Intel Graphics Driver

Option 1

1. go to Nvidia to download the latest driver in .run format
2. go to single-user mode and uninstall existing nvidia drivers sudo apt-get purge nvidia-* You may need to perform apt autoremove to remove stray nvidia related packages.

$ init 1$ sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*

3. Verify That Nouveau Driver is Disabled: remove nvidia related config files under /etc/modprobe.d/ and /lib/modprobe.d/
4. excute the downloaded run file

$ ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.44.run

5. update the following lines in grub file

$ nano /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="modprobe.blacklist=nouveau"GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

$ sudo update-grub

6. verify the running kernel module$ prime-select query . Switch to nvidia if the current version is intel: $ prime-select nvidia

7. Verify That Nouveau Driver is Disabled

grep nouveau /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Option 2

1. Open Software & Updates
2. Tick first four options
3. NVIDIA device drivers can be found in 'Additional Drivers'
4. After the drivers have been installed, reboot

Install CUDA if necessary

install CUDA 10 from official website (.deb), and follow the instructions to add apt-key. Lastly:

sudo apt install cuda

In .bashrc add:

# CUDAexport PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}$export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/lib64${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}

Install CUDA DNN

sudo apt install libcudnn7

Official Installation Guide (CUDA)