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I am trying to install nvidia drivers on my ubuntu 16.04 (I have a GeForce GTX 960M). I tried a lot of methods explained on internet but none seems to work. (I saw How to install nvidia-smi?, nvidia-smi: command not found on Ubuntu 16, but these did not help...)
Indeed when I run nvidia-smi, I get nvidia-smi command not found, and when I run lshw -numeric -C display I see that my graphical card is has status display unclaimed. I don't know if it is related but it seems weird
The solution that worked for me was to disable secure boot when rebooting after installing the NVIDIA drivers.
sudo apt purge nvidia-*
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-381
Then reboot, in the menu choose "change secure boot options", put the password you previously chose and disable the secure boot.
nvidia-381 or nvidia-340....
Jul 28, 2020 at 17:28
Try updating the driver.
Add the PPA by running the following commands in terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
Open Software & Updates from System Settings or directly from Dash, click on the Additional Drivers tab, select the driver you want to use, and click Apply changes.
After the driver is downloaded and installed, restart your system.
In my case, just disabling secure boot in the BIOS solved the problem.
The driver's version depends on your GPU. Check it here, before installing any driver: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
I've had this condition, this happens if you somehow boot the all-working system w/o an NVidia card and then NVidia drivers and utils disappear.
This is what helped: (considering your CUDA version is 9.2 and driver version is 418)
sudo vi /etc/ld.so.conf.d/cuda-9-2.conf
/usr/local/cuda-9.0/targets/x86_64-linux/lib
/usr/lib/nvidia-418 ( <<- add this line)
Then do:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-418
Then reboot. It should work.
So, in case, it still does not, just reinstall Cuda completely, that will do it.
You should use nvidia-current when you run install, so you can get the latest release.
Version: 304.135-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 which is not the latest release.
This worked for me:
sudo apt purge nvidia-*
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-396
Some use aptitude instead of apt:
sudo apt purge nvidia-*
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo aptitude install nvidia-driver-396
If nothing works, please check your ubuntu (if that's your case) kernel as several guides state that some kernels are not supported by Nvidia. Ukuu is a simple tool to install different kernels and add them to GRUB. I changed mine (in ubuntu-18.04 LTS) to 4.18.4-041804-generic and find it pretty good and stable.
If this code doesn't work follow this tutorial until step 8. Though the main objective is the complete installation with also CUDA, cuDNN, NCCL, tensorflow, etc I found it good to install Nvidia drivers also (learnt the kernel issue from it, in the comments)
Only thing that worked for me was I had to uninstall everything related to nvidia and bumblebee, and upgrade my kernel from 4.4 to 4.8.17 with the help of the Ukuu package, and install 390 version of the drivers.
I had faced the same issue. All the answers will correctly let you solve the problem.
Problem: But the main issue is with driver version. You would have enabled latest version like 430 or such. But idk why but later versions cause this error. Even if you disable secure boot, it'll say "Ubuntu is working on low graphics"
Solution: Install the version lower than 400 say 381, or whatever your case be. Just search in additional drivers under Ubuntu software settings.
If none of these won't work, you might have secure boot activated, for example if you dual boot. Either turn it off, but if you cannot like me, this post made me able to get drivers working WITH secure boot: How to install nvidia driver with secure boot enabled?
Disable secure boot.
Purge all existing Nvidia drivers. Take Trying to Install Nvidia packages, unable to correct problems you have held broken packages as a reference.
Check which drivers are suggested with
ubuntu-drivers devices
and then install them:
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
See How do I know which NVIDIA driver I need? or https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa-linux for more info.
3.(Optional) Install Cuda. Follow https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#ubuntu-installation. Make sure to install cuda version compatible with your drivers.
sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit
and reboot with "sudo reboot".
5.
sudo prime-select nvidia
and reboot with "sudo reboot".
6.
nvidia-smi
I will give a bit more troubleshooting instructions.
First, ensure you have "Secure boot" in your BIOS->Security menu set to Disabled.
Then, from the accepted answer:
sudo apt purge "*nvidia*"
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo aptitude install -y nvidia-driver-XXX
where XXX stands for the driver version you can find on this webpage: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us.
At this moment, you could try the following:
sudo modprobe nvidia
If this command produces no output, you can reboot first or straightaway check your installation with the following:
nvidia-smi
If the modprobe command fails, welcome to the jungle. If it is something like:
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Key was rejected by service
The issue is "Secure boot" is set to Enabled. Otherwise, copy your problem in Google and browse official Nvidia forums for support.
Keep in mind:
