Issue:
When i check command: nvidia-smi. its shows, NVIDIA driver is not loaded.
Please advise, how to overcome this issue.
~$ 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.
~$ nvidia-settings
ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded
ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system
Installed Drivers:
In Ubuntu → Software&Updates → Additional Drivers:
Selected driver as: Using NVIDIA driver meta package from nvidia-driver-440
~$ dkms status
nvidia, 440.36, 5.0.0-37-generic, x86_64: installed
Laptop Details:
HP Omen Gaming Laptop Intel Core i7
NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB
16 GB RAM
OS Details:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
u1@vision:~$
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
VGA Details:
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 6GB]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
resources: irq:137 memory:db000000-dbffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff
memory:c0000000-c1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:dc000000-dc07ffff