Updating NVIDIA Drivers on Linux
You must install the recommended drivers for your NVIDIA video card, otherwise Harmony will not function.
In general, you should use the latest drivers. New drivers tend to resolve past driver issues. If you already have NVIDIA drivers installed, find the version number by typing:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "X Driver"
How to install the NVIDIA driver
- Download the Linux driver from the NVIDIA website:
www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
- As a root user, switch to text mode when installing video card drivers.
/sbin/init 3
- Install the NVIDIA kernel driver.
sh /[path_to_driver_file]/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-[driver_name].run
- Once the NVIDIA driver installation is successful, revert to graphical mode by starting X.
/sbin/init 5
OR
startx
IMPORTANT: Some recent Linux distributions include an open source driver for NVIDIA graphic cards called "Nouveau". This driver must be disabled in order to install the NVIDIA drivers—refer to the NVIDIA documentation.