530 doesn't work on ubuntu 23.04!

Just install and reinstall many times 530. nvidia-smi doesn’t work and prime-select query only shows “auto”.

$ uname -a
Linux khteh-p17-2i 6.2.0-20-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Apr  6 07:48:48 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
$ prime-select query
on-demand
$ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd000025B8sv000017AAsd000022DEbc03sc00i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
model    : GA107GLM [RTX A2000 Mobile]
driver   : nvidia-driver-510 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-470-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-525 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-515-open - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-515-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-525-open - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-530 - distro non-free recommended
driver   : nvidia-driver-525-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-530-open - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-515 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-470 - distro non-free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
 $ dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
ii  libaccinj64-11.8:amd64                        11.8.87~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA ACCINJ Library (64-bit)
ii  libcu++-dev                                   1.8.1-2                                 all          NVIDIA C++ Standard Library
ii  libcublas11:amd64                             11.11.3.6~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA cuBLAS Library
ii  libcublaslt11:amd64                           11.11.3.6~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA cuBLASLt Library
ii  libcudart11.0:amd64                           11.8.89~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA CUDA Runtime Library
ii  libcufft10:amd64                              11.1.1+~10.9.0.58~11.8.0-3              amd64        NVIDIA cuFFT Library
ii  libcufftw10:amd64                             11.1.1+~10.9.0.58~11.8.0-3              amd64        NVIDIA cuFFTW Library
ii  libcuinj64-11.8:amd64                         11.8.87~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA CUINJ Library (64-bit)
ii  libcupti-dev:amd64                            11.8.87~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA CUDA Profiler Tools Interface development files
ii  libcupti-doc                                  11.8.87~11.8.0-3                        all          NVIDIA CUDA Profiler Tools Interface documentation
ii  libcupti11.8:amd64                            11.8.87~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA CUDA Profiler Tools Interface runtime library
ii  libcurand10:amd64                             11.1.1+~10.3.0.86~11.8.0-3              amd64        NVIDIA cuRAND Library
ii  libcusolver11:amd64                           11.4.1.48~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA cuSOLVER Library
ii  libcusolvermg11:amd64                         11.4.1.48~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA cuSOLVERmg Library
ii  libcusparse11:amd64                           11.7.5.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA cuSPARSE Library
ii  libnppc11:amd64                               11.8.0.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA Performance Primitives core runtime library
ii  libnppial11:amd64                             11.8.0.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA Performance Primitives lib for Image Arithmetic and Logic
ii  libnppicc11:amd64                             11.8.0.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA Performance Primitives lib for Image Color Conversion
ii  libnppidei11:amd64                            11.8.0.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA Performance Primitives lib for Image Data Exchange and Initialization
ii  libnppif11:amd64                              11.8.0.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA Performance Primitives lib for Image Filters
ii  libnppig11:amd64                              11.8.0.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA Performance Primitives lib for Image Geometry transforms
ii  libnppim11:amd64                              11.8.0.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA Performance Primitives lib for Image Morphological operations
ii  libnppist11:amd64                             11.8.0.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA Performance Primitives lib for Image Statistics
ii  libnppisu11:amd64                             11.8.0.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA Performance Primitives lib for Image Support
ii  libnppitc11:amd64                             11.8.0.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA Performance Primitives lib for Image Threshold and Compare
ii  libnpps11:amd64                               11.8.0.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA Performance Primitives for signal processing runtime library
ii  libnvidia-cfg1-530:amd64                      530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library
ii  libnvidia-common-530                          530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      all          Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries
ii  libnvidia-compute-530:amd64                   530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        NVIDIA libcompute package
ii  libnvidia-decode-530:amd64                    530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii  libnvidia-encode-530:amd64                    530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii  libnvidia-extra-530:amd64                     530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        Extra libraries for the NVIDIA driver
ii  libnvidia-fbc1-530:amd64                      530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii  libnvidia-gl-530:amd64                        530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii  libnvidia-ml-dev:amd64                        11.8.86~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) development files
ii  libnvjpeg11:amd64                             11.9.0.86~11.8.0-3                      amd64        NVIDIA JPEG library (nvJPEG)
ii  libnvrtc-builtins11.8:amd64                   11.8.89~11.8.0-3                        amd64        CUDA Runtime Compilation (NVIDIA NVRTC Builtins Library)
ii  libnvrtc11.2:amd64                            11.8.89~11.8.0-3                        amd64        CUDA Runtime Compilation (NVIDIA NVRTC Library)
ii  libnvtoolsext1:amd64                          11.8.86~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA Tools Extension Library
ii  libnvvm4:amd64                                11.8.89~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA NVVM Library
ii  linux-signatures-nvidia-6.2.0-1003-lowlatency 6.2.0-1003.3+2                          amd64        Linux kernel signatures for nvidia modules for version 6.2.0-1003-lowlatency
ii  linux-signatures-nvidia-6.2.0-20-generic      6.2.0-20.20+2                           amd64        Linux kernel signatures for nvidia modules for version 6.2.0-20-generic
ii  nsight-compute                                2022.3.0.22~11.8.0-3                    amd64        NVIDIA Nsight Compute
ii  nsight-compute-target:amd64                   2022.3.0.22~11.8.0-3                    amd64        NVIDIA Nsight Compute (target specific libraries)
ii  nsight-systems                                2022.4.2.1~11.8.0-3                     amd64        NVIDIA Nsight Systems
ii  nsight-systems-target:amd64                   2022.4.2.1~11.8.0-3                     amd64        NVIDIA Nsight Systems (target specific libraries)
ii  nvidia-compute-utils-530                      530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        NVIDIA compute utilities
ii  nvidia-cuda-dev:amd64                         11.8.89~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA CUDA development files
ii  nvidia-cuda-gdb                               11.8.86~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA CUDA Debugger (GDB)
ii  nvidia-cuda-toolkit                           11.8.89~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA CUDA development toolkit
ii  nvidia-cuda-toolkit-doc                       11.8.0-3                                all          NVIDIA CUDA and OpenCL documentation
ii  nvidia-dkms-530                               530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        NVIDIA DKMS package
ii  nvidia-driver-530                             530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        NVIDIA driver metapackage
ii  nvidia-kernel-common-530                      530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        Shared files used with the kernel module
ii  nvidia-kernel-source-530                      530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        NVIDIA kernel source package
ii  nvidia-opencl-dev:amd64                       11.8.89~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA OpenCL development files
ii  nvidia-prime                                  0.8.17.1                                all          Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii  nvidia-profiler                               11.8.87~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA Profiler for CUDA and OpenCL
ii  nvidia-settings                               510.47.03-0ubuntu1                      amd64        Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii  nvidia-utils-530                              530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii  nvidia-visual-profiler                        11.8.87~11.8.0-3                        amd64        NVIDIA Visual Profiler for CUDA and OpenCL
ii  screen-resolution-extra                       0.18.3                                  all          Extension for the nvidia-settings control panel
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-530                 530.41.03-0ubuntu2                      amd64        NVIDIA binary Xorg driver

WTF is happening?

Please run nvidia-bug-report.sh as root and attach the resulting nvidia-bug-report.log.gz file to your post.

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (120.6 KB)

Please disable secure boot in bios or install the signed, precompiled modules from ubuntu repo.

How to install signed, precompiled modules from ubuntu repo?

You can either reinstall ubuntu and tick the option to “Install Third Party Software” or exchange the packages. I don’t know exactly how to do this but basically, the package

nvidia-dkms-530

needs to be replaced with

linux-modules-nvidia-530-6.2.0-20-generic
linux-objects-nvidia-530-6.2.0-20-generic
linux-signatures-nvidia-6.2.0-20-generic

For whether there’s an easier way rather ask in the ubuntu forums.

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I try both the following commands and none of them works at all

   sudo apt install -y nvidia-driver-530
   sudo ubuntu-drivers install nvidia:530

Now that I have managed to install the drivers and nvidia-smi shows output but it does NOT detect my external monitor which used to work with previous version of the driver. Sometimes it is detected by the resolution too small

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