I’ve got Ubuntu 18.04 running on MSI-GS66 with GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile.
I had nvidia-smi working fine until I installed cuda-toolkit, after which nvidia-smi shows “NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.”
(note: I installed driver and cuda-toolkit both from the official runfiles)
nvcc --version works fine:
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2021 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Sun_Aug_15_21:14:11_PDT_2021
Cuda compilation tools, release 11.4, V11.4.120
Build cuda_11.4.r11.4/compiler.30300941_0
On doing sudo lshw -c display, I see nvidia to be unclaimed. I’ve already checked out existing posts on this and none seem to work for me.
Here’s output of ls /etc/modprobe.d/ (if needed I can include contents of a specific file but doing so for all .conf files maybe too much information):
- alsa-base.conf
- amd64-microcode-blacklist.conf
- blacklist-ath_pci.conf
- blacklist.conf
- blacklist-firewire.conf
- blacklist-framebuffer.conf
- blacklist-i2c-nvidia-gpu.conf
- blacklist-modem.conf
- blacklist-nouveau.conf
- blacklist-oss.conf → /lib/linux-sound-base/noOSS.modprobe.conf
- blacklist-rare-network.conf
- dkms.conf
- intel-microcode-blacklist.conf
- iwlwifi.conf
- libopenni-sensor-pointclouds0.conf
- nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf
Likewise, output of ls /lib/modprobe.d/:
- aliases.conf
- blacklist_linux-hwe-5.4_5.4.0-84-generic.conf
- blacklist_linux-hwe-5.4_5.4.0-86-generic.conf
- fbdev-blacklist.conf
- nvidia-runtimepm.conf
- systemd.conf
Also, which nvidia-smi gives /usr/bin/nvidia-smi, dkms status is empty. Secureboot is disabled alright, there’s no /etc/X11/xorg.conf either.
I’m looking for advice on how get nvidia-smi back up, nvidia-bug-report.log and journal.txt attached.
journal.txt (192.0 KB)
nvidia-bug-report.log (1.2 MB)