The Additional Drivers tab in Ubuntu settings confirms that I’m using nvidia-driver-435.
and
$ prime-select query
nvidia
but Ubuntu’s About tab has Graphics as llvmpipe (LLVM 8.0, 256 bits)
$ 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
(nvidia-settings:6246): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 14:02:22.960: g_object_unref: assertion ‘G_IS_OBJECT (object)’ failed
** Message: 14:02:22.961: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort
** Message: 14:02:22.961: PRIME: is it supported? no
My /etc/modules lists only:
coretemp
I currently have /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf with:
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
I am having the same problem on Mint, and I tried this with no luck:
rm: cannot remove ‘/lib/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf’: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove ‘/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf’: No such file or directory
I tried the solution suggested, however I receive this message:
sudo rm /lib/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf
rm: cannot remove ‘/lib/modprosudo rm /lib/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf
rm: cannot remove ‘/lib/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf’: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove ‘/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf’: No such file or directory
be.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf’: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove ‘/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf’: No such file or directory
To be honest I am not sure if I have provided enough information. Please advise.