Ok I have tried and found some obstacles, I did not complete even the 2nd step. I report here to avoid messing up my system again.
- switched to noveau. Done.
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2) run the runfile installer for 535.113.01 with option -b. No rebooting.
The file I used is NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-535.113.01.run. After checking that it is executable, I used this command in the terminal:
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-535.113.01.run -b
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To which I found this error:
ERROR: An NVIDIA kernel module 'nvidia-drm' appears to already be loaded in your kernel. This may be because it is in use (for example, by an X server, a CUDA program, or the NVIDIA
Persistence Daemon), but this may also happen if your kernel was configured without support for module unloading. Please be sure to exit any programs that may be using the
GPU(s) before attempting to upgrade your driver. If no GPU-based programs are running, you know that your kernel supports module unloading, and you still receive this message,
then an error may have occurred that has corrupted an NVIDIA kernel module's usage count, for which the simplest remedy is to reboot your computer.
After pressing OK:
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file "/var/log/nvidia-installer.log" for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on
the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.
nvidia-installer.log (1.3 KB)
I have seen many posts about this but again, I don’t want to try anything crazy. I really need my system up and going.
I did not reboot.