The nvidia driver stopped working after I rebooted a debian 11 server, I was getting the error " NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running."
I proceeded to remove the driver. Installed nvidia-detect to determine which nvidia driver was supported.
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK104GL [Quadro K5000] [10de:11ba] (rev a1)
87:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GK180GL [Tesla K40c] [10de:1024] (rev a1)
Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GK104GL [Quadro K5000] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by all driver versions.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 470 drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 450 drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 418 drivers series.
It is recommended to install the
nvidia-driver
package.
Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GK180GL [Tesla K40c] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by all driver versions.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 470 drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 450 drivers series.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 418 drivers series.
It is recommended to install the
nvidia-driver
package.
I installed the nvidia driver with “sudo apt install nvidia-driver”, and now I am getting the error “Failed to initialize NVML: Function Not Found”.
I have repeated the remove-install process a few time, I even tried to use the older version of the driver to no avail.
I have searched for similar issues but I found no results.
Please let me know what else I can do to make the driver work again.
Thanks,