llvmpipe (LLVM 10.0.0, 256 bits) is getting detected instead of NVIDIA

Question

I am using:

Ubuntu 18.04.1

Kernel version: 5.4.0-42-generic

NVIDIA 1660 TI (Lenovo Legion Y545)

I have secure boot disabled, I have reinstalled the nvidia drivers but no help to this problem.

Instead of the NVIDIA drivers showing up, I get llvmpipe (LLVM 10.0.0, 256 bits). I have tried everything and I can't seem to fix it.

lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'

Output:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU116M [GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3ffc
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation TU116 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

Edit

What I did (steps):

1. sudo apt-get remove --purge '^nvidia-.*' to remove the existing one

2. Removed all the unnecessary PPA's so when I run sudo apt update it outputs:

   Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88,7 kB]

   Hit:2 http://al.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease

   Hit:3 http://al.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease

   Hit:4 http://al.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
   Fetched 88,7 kB in 1s (84,9 kB/s)

   ...

3. I run sudo apt install nvidia-driver-440 and do a reboot after that just like @Pilot6 suggested but I have no result.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Disabling Secure Boot and installing nvidia-driver-XXX worked for me.

Answer 2

Okay, then I make an answer. It turns out the nivida-packages (440) was not compatible wiith the kernel from Paket linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge (5.4:XXx) and blocks dkms itself. Reverting to linux-generic (4.15.xxx) and purging (linux-generic-hwe-18.04-edge) and his dependencies and reinstalling package nvidia-dkms-440 did the trick.

Answer 3

I am not sure if this will be useful to anyone. I installed ubuntu 22.04 but the Graphics in Settings > About was showing as llvmpipe.

To resolve the issue, I performed the following steps.

1] I first disabled the secure boot option in the bios.

2] I added the graphics ppa for the Jammy Jellyfish (i.e. 22.04) and reinstalled the nvidia drivers : sudo apt reinstall nvidia-driver-510 . Now everything is fine.