Hi there.
I am currently unable to get the nvidia driver 515 working on elementary OS 6.1
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (75.7 KB)
on this acer Laptop. It has an i5-10300H CPU and the nvidia GTX 3060.
When running nvidia-smi I just get
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’ve tried several driver versions now with no luck. The intel integrated GPU works fine, but I just can’t get to use the nvidia one.
The logs are heere. If you need anything else, just ask! Thanks for looking at this.
There’s no kernel driver installed, please check you booted the correct kernel. Please post the output of
dkms status
dpkg -l |grep nvidia
Alright, sounds weird.
anyhow:
$ dkms status
nvidia, 515.48.07: added
and
$ dpkg -l |grep nvidia
ii libnvidia-cfg1-515:amd64 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library
ii libnvidia-common-515 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 all Shared files used by the NVIDIA libraries
rc libnvidia-compute-470:amd64 470.129.06-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA libcompute package
rc libnvidia-compute-510:amd64 510.73.05-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 amd64 NVIDIA libcompute package
ii libnvidia-compute-515:amd64 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA libcompute package
ii libnvidia-decode-515:amd64 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA Video Decoding runtime libraries
ii libnvidia-encode-515:amd64 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii libnvidia-extra-515:amd64 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 Extra libraries for the NVIDIA driver
ii libnvidia-fbc1-515:amd64 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL-based Framebuffer Capture runtime library
ii libnvidia-gl-515:amd64 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
ii nvidia-compute-utils-515 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA compute utilities
ii nvidia-dkms-515 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA DKMS package
ii nvidia-driver-515 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA driver metapackage
ii nvidia-kernel-common-515 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 Shared files used with the kernel module
ii nvidia-kernel-source-515 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA kernel source package
ii nvidia-prime 0.8.16~0.20.04.2 all Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-settings 470.57.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.3 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-utils-515 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii screen-resolution-extra 0.18build1 all Extension for the nvidia-settings control panel
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-515 515.48.07-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
Please try (re)installing kernel headers
sudo apt install --reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r)
and check if
dkms status
changes to “installed”. If not, run
sudo dkms install nvidia/515.48.07
and post any errors and attach the referenced make.log.
sudo apt install --reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r)
did the job, after this dkms status did indeed say the driver was installed.
Thank you very much.
If you don’t mind me asking: how come just doing sudo apt install nvidia-driver-515 was not enough?
It “should” pull in the headers but sometimes it doesn’t. Don’t know about the specific dependencies of the ubuntu packages, that’s rather a question for the ubuntu packagers.
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