-bash: nvidia-smi: command not found - jetpack 5.1.1

[creatorpart]

Hi dears! I have installed successfully the jetpack 5.1.1 into the jetson orin nano 8GB. However when I run the command (nvidia-smi) after the installation (I reboot it) this is throwing “command not found”…

orin@ubuntu:~$ nvidia-smi
-bash: nvidia-smi: command not found

In the next picture we can see that cuda was installed successfully through a Virtual machine (host machine)

However when I run “nvcc --version” this throwed

nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2022 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Sun_Oct_23_22:16:07_PDT_2022
Cuda compilation tools, release 11.4, V11.4.315
Build cuda_11.4.r11.4/compiler.31964100_0

Now I have the next question, is possible fix the “command not found” when we run the command “nvidia-smi”?

thanks in advance.

[linuxdev]

Jetsons have an integrated GPU (iGPU) wired directly to the memory controller. Discreate GPUs (dGPU) which a desktop PC uses is working through the PCI bus. nvidia-smi is only for dGPUs, and dGPU drivers are incompatible with Jetsons. If you were to install drivers which use nvidia-smi the system would break and you’d probably have to flash again. I can’t help with particular workarounds for software which wants that command, but if you ask about specifics, some of the people here could answer for a more detailed use-case how to work with that.

[creatorpart]

thanks for your reply, now I understand it very well. Thanks