First of all, thank you for your reply.
I did a clean slate of UBUNTU and started over documenting as I went.
The forum won’t let me reply with more than 3 URL’s so I put the steps here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e6dssghvn3cd0ul/nvidia-response-forum.txt?dl=1
(test again - same error)
sudo docker run --gpus all nvcr.io/nvidia/k8s/cuda-sample:nbody nbody -gpu -benchmark
docker: Error response from daemon: could not select device driver “” with capabilities: [[gpu]].
ERRO[0000] error waiting for container: context canceled