Questions tagged as ['hardware-enablement-stack']

Dell Laptop with a recently installed Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS with HWE-kernel. Laptop has a Intell integrated GPU and an nVidia discrete GPU.

On install from Live USB, I said "yes" to install any proprietary drivers, which in turn created a MOK signature for SecureBoot.

But as far as I am aware, it is not using any nVidia proprietary drivers and used nouveau open source drivers, like this screenshot belo ...

With Ubuntu 20.04, I know that we can install the latest HWE kernel via sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-20.04. At the moment, this installs linux-hwe-5.13. However, the drivers for the hardware I am working with only currently support linux-hwe-5.11. How would I go about installing this specific kernel?

Thanks

EDIT: After running the proposed fix by N0rbert

output of ls /boot is

config-5.4.0-050400 ...

Both kernels seems to include latest drivers, but I can't find why both are needed or what are their differences. It's confusing!

TLDR

I'm trying to get nvidia-smi back up, which was working fine until I installed cuda-toolkit. Uninstalling cuda-toolkit didn't help. How can I restore nvidia-smi output?

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

More details

I've GEFORCE RTX 2070 on my laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 and had successfu ...

Goal

I wish to use the modesetting graphics dr-ver instead of the intel graphics dr-ver.

Note

I was only able to get around the automated spam filter by replacing invocations of "driver" with "dr-ver". See this.

Impetus

My current graphics configuration results in two problems:

• bizarre graphics flickering and artifacting when using three external monitors connected via a Thunderbolt 3 dock
• the AM ...