Can not load nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 22.10

[wolf2wulf]

I am using ubuntu 22.10.
I have disabled secureboot.
I installed the recommended nvidia drivers through ubuntu’s graphical interface: nvidia-driver-525

The output of lspci | egrep -i "vga|display|3d" is:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA104GLM [RTX A4000 Mobile] (rev a1)

The output of nvidia-smi is:

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it could not communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

The output of sudo modprobe nvidia is:

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert "nvidia": No such device

I have attached the nvidia debugging report.

Can someone tell me what is going wrong?
How can I get my GPU to work?

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (743.8 KB)

[MarkusHoHo]

Hi there @wolf2wulf and welcome to the NVIDIA developer forums.

Did you make sure to disable the nouveau driver? The kernel module at least is still loaded according to your log file.

One way to make sure is to blacklist nouveau:

$ sudo bash -c "echo blacklist nouveau >
	/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf"
$ sudo bash -c "echo options nouveau modeset=0 >>
	/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf"
$ sudo update-initramfs -u
$ sudo reboot

This might fix it, but I am not 100% sure. Please try and let us know if it helped.