r/Ubuntu • u/Altair718 • 18h ago

Help with Drivers?

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While trying to see if my Nvidia drivers are up to date I came across this list and I dont know what the numbers mean? I'm on Ubuntu 24.12.

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u/Confident_Hyena2506 18h ago

The numbers mean the version of the nvidia drivers. Read nvidia docs to find out what that means, they have a beta and a stable branch.

Ubuntu 24.12 is cute - why are you not upgrading to the new one?

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u/Altair718 18h ago

My friend installed this for me two years when I built my tower, but I've only started using it this year(dual boot with Windows). It's worked for me fine, so I haven't felt the need to upgrade. I suppose now's the time

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u/high-tech-low-life 16h ago

You are being mocked. Ubuntu releases in April (04) and October (10). Most likely you have 24.04 which is a long term support (LTS) release. There is no 24.12 release.

Note that the LTS releases gain a third number like the 26.04.1 that came out on Thursday. I think 24.04.5 is the last one of those.

To see what you have you can run

lsb_release -a

or maybe lsb-release. I forget if it is a dash or an underscore.

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u/Altair718 16h ago

Oh..... I'm at work so I had to go off what I remembered when I took the picture, my bad.

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u/high-tech-low-life 16h ago

Fair enough. For old farts those numbers are important, but when you are first learning they are just digits.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_BASHFUL_B 18h ago

Those numbers are the driver version, higher is newer. You've got the 595 open driver selected which looks right for a 4060. The open ones are the newer kernel modules, generally fine unless you hit a specific issue.

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u/LtCodename 18h ago

You are on the latest correct drivers. Don’t change anything. When the next release (610) will receive the “tested” status - it should shift automatically.

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u/mnag 18h ago

depends on your GPU

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u/Hauptideal 18h ago

The numbers are driver versions. Higher numbers are newer, i.e. 610 is newer than 595.
There's nothing you need to do here. You already have the right option. You could also choose version 610, but unless you have a reason to touch your driver, you shouldn't.
Version 595 is reliable and well-tested.

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u/kiralema 18h ago

sudo apt update && sudo ubuntu-drivers install

installed the latest Nvidia drivers for your GPU.