I was using Ubuntu 20.04 on my PC with NVIDIA GTX 1060 card. Even after installed the driver from Additional Drivers, I got the below error when running nvidia-smi to check if the driver is working.
$ 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
After a lot of searching, I ended up with this solution:
To resolve the above issue, you can do these simple steps:
Step 1: Make sure you have nvidia-prime installed:
sudo apt install nvidia-prime
Step 2: Run these commands in Terminal:
sudo prime-select nvidia
sudo rm /lib/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf
sudo update-initramfs -u
Step 3: Reboot
sudo reboot
Step 4: Check again
nvidia-smi
And ta-da! It's working.
Top comments (3)
It didn't work for Ubuntu 22. There is still the same error. Please, someone do find a solution for this problem.
I reinstalled Ubuntu 22, and then solved.
When I issue the command: 'sudo rm /lib/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia.conf' it says no such file exists. So I move on, and I still get the error.