I have a Quadro RTX 4000 in a ubuntu 19.10 box
ubuntu-drivers devices listed nvidia-driver-440 as recomended
so I installed
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-440
after reboot
lsmod | grep nvidia
lists
i2c_nvidia_gpu 16384 0
but
nvidia-smi fails saying it can’t communicate with NVIDIA driver
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (118 KB)