I’m glad to say that after a reboot the Nvidia graphics card is still recognized. I even see some processes using it:
$ sudo nvidia-smi
Tue Aug 10 21:03:09 2021
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.57.02 Driver Version: 470.57.02 CUDA Version: 11.4 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce ... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 46C P0 10W / N/A | 9MiB / 3913MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1133 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2995 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
I still can’t explain why all of a sudden the drivers were recognized but I hope this post is useful to some people.
Thanks,
Alex