# NVIDIA 460 Driver Problem on Ubuntu 20.04
**URL:** https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-460-driver-problem-on-ubuntu-20-04/178668
**Category:** Linux
**Tags:** gpu, driver
**Created:** [May 22, 2021, 4:52am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-460-driver-problem-on-ubuntu-20-04/178668 "2021-05-22T04:52:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@baz.yarik](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/baz.yarik)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2021, 4:52am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-460-driver-problem-on-ubuntu-20-04/178668/1 "2021-05-22T04:52:19Z")
Greetings,
Seem to be a common issue, but still, anything is not working for me from similar topics…
Lenovo Legion Y520
Info from **About** from **Settings**
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, 64 bit
GNOME 3.36.8
Windowing X11
Processor Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz × 8
Graphics Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2)
```
$ sudo lshw -c display
```
> \*-display UNCLAIMED
> description: 3D controller
> product: GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile]
> vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
> physical id: 0
> bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
> version: a1
> width: 64 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus\_master cap\_list
> configuration: latency=0
> resources: memory:a3000000-a3ffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff memory:a0000000-a1ffffff ioport:4000(size=128)
> \*-display
> description: VGA compatible controller
> product: HD Graphics 630
> vendor: Intel Corporation
> physical id: 2
> bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
> version: 04
> width: 64 bits
> clock: 33MHz
> capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga\_controller bus\_master cap\_list rom
> configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
> resources: irq:132 memory:a2000000-a2ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:5000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
```
$ nvidia-smi
```
> NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
Here is bug report:
[nvidia-bug-report.log.gz](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/uploads/short-url/uuJYhOogkIrtTIklt9dw0aR4bmT.gz) (162.3 KB)
```
$ cc --version
```
> cc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0
> Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
```
$ dkms status
```
> nvidia, 460.80, 5.8.0-53-generic, x86\_64: installed
```
$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
```
> Reading package lists… Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information… Done
> linux-headers-5.8.0-53-generic is already the newest version (5.8.0-53.60~20.04.1).
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
```
$ sudo dkms install nvidia/460.80 --all
```
> Module nvidia/460.80 already installed on kernel 5.8.0-53-generic/x86\_64
```
$ dpkg --list |grep "linux-headers"
```
> ii linux-headers-5.4.0-73 5.4.0-73.82 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 5.4.0
> ii linux-headers-5.4.0-73-generic 5.4.0-73.82 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 5.4.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
> ii linux-headers-5.8.0-50-generic 5.8.0-50.56~20.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 5.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
> ii linux-headers-5.8.0-53-generic 5.8.0-53.60~20.04.1 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 5.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
> ii linux-headers-generic 5.4.0.73.76 amd64 Generic Linux kernel headers
> ii linux-headers-generic-hwe-20.04 5.8.0.53.60~20.04.37 amd64 Generic Linux kernel headers
Appreciate for help!
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### Author:  [@keithdm](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/keithdm)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-460-driver-problem-on-ubuntu-20-04/178668/2 "2021-06-11T18:53:49Z")
Set your kernel to the 5.4.0-7x-generic, I was on 5.4.0-74 with Ubuntu 18.04 and it was working.
Ubuntu kernel 5.8 seems to be a newer release and might be less stable.