Hello, nvidia-smi gives me the following error NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldnt communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running. And the laptop’s graphics card description is given below: lspci -nnk | grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible…

Nvidia-smi error with Ubuntu 20.04 on laptop

generix July 9, 2022, 12:41am 4

Friggin’ HP Zbook, Please try a 5.10 or a 5.15 kernel, I think 22.04 has that.

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