As shown in the below photo I have the nvidia 470 driver installed on my Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS but when I run nvidia-smi it gives the error NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
I noticed in the settings that the graphics card model is not appearing and says "unknown".
I've also noticed that the Graphics is set to "llvmpipe (LLVM 10.0.0, 256 bits)" although in the settings the nvidia 470 is chosen.
I've did some googling and found that some suggestions are to disable the secure boot so I checked and found out that the secure boot is already off.
I've also removed the nvidia driver and reinstalled as per these steps but still after rebooting the same issue.
Any advice please?
When running lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D'
this is the result:
0000:17:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1e30 (rev a1)
Subsystem: Dell Device 12ba
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau
0000:17:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 10f7 (rev a1)
--
0000:73:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1e30 (rev a1)
Subsystem: Dell Device 12ba
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau
0000:73:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 10f7 (rev a1)
--
0000:a6:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1e30 (rev a1)
Subsystem: Dell Device 12ba
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau
0000:a6:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 10f7 (rev a1)
The output of dkms status
is:
nvidia, 470.74: added
nvidia-fs, 2.7.53: added
oem-ethernet-intel-igb-lp1805326-5.3.5.22, 0.2, 4.15.0-1027-oem, x86_64: installed
