Hi there, I recently clean installed both the 570.124.06 NVIDIA drivers and CUDA v.12.8.
Everything went smoothly, and I used this repository (Index of /graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu) under the Software & Updates to install drivers, whereas for CUDA I went for the network instalation. Below the output of nvidia-smi and nvcc -V:
Drivers
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.124.06 Driver Version: 570.124.06 CUDA Version: 12.8 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 Quadro RTX 5000 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 55C P8 4W / 110W | 8MiB / 16384MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 6218 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 2MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 6908 G /usr/bin/gjs-console 2MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
CUDA
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2025 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Fri_Feb_21_20:23:50_PST_2025
Cuda compilation tools, release 12.8, V12.8.93
Build cuda_12.8.r12.8/compiler.35583870_0
Now, at first I couldn’t see anything wrong, but I had the suspicion that the GPU wasn’t being used… I digged a bit and, in fact, I cannot select the NVIDIA card with sudo prime-select nvidia which returns the folwing:
sudo: prime-select: command not found
I’m aware that the PRIME profile in the nvidia-setting is something Ubuntu has done and should not be present in the Nvidia version for the software; however, even changing it from CLI seems to not be working…
Trying to install the nvidia-prime causes the 570.124.06 to get prompted with a notification of autoremoval since it appears the two are incompatible?
When I do so, in the Software & Update app instead of seeing the screenshot to follow
I get a weird Continue use a manually installed driver which cannot be changed unless I run
sudo ubuntu-drivers (auto)install
for then resetting everything to the 570.124.06… where I keep using the Intel GPU of my laptop WS (Precision 7750), and I’m unable to force the use of the Nvidia card.
The is the version of Ubuntu Im using:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=24.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=noble
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS"
I spent a bit of time yesterday attempting to figuring out why is this happening; there were some clues on using Wayland - which I’m currently running - instead of X11, but these are all things I’m not too familiar with and not sure how they would impact on GPU persistent engagement. Also, the following command which seems to be related to the nouveau settings
sudo systemctl disable nvidia-fallback.service
returns this
Failed to disable unit: Unit file nvidia-fallback.service does not exist.
Sorry for the long message, I’ve tried to explain at the best I could all attempts and approaches I followed; let me know if anything else is needed to help resolve this issue. Thanks in advance!