Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS doesn't find Nvidia driver at all

I was trying to run a program in Ubuntu on Windows 10 but for some reason it just cannot find my NVIDA driver. I have tried install via the '$sudo apt-get nvidia-xxx' (tried different versions too), but it didn't seem to help.

When I do '$nvidia-smi' it returns 'NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.'. When I do '$nvidia-settings' it returns 'ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run nvidia-settings --help for usage information.'

I have then followed some of the steps on the internet trying to do $lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D', the results are

> lspci: Unable to load libkmod resources: error -2 5ba5:00:00.0 3D
> controller: Microsoft Corporation Basic Render Driver
>         Kernel driver in use: dxgkrnl e7a1:00:00.0 3D controller: Microsoft Corporation Basic Render Driver
>         Kernel driver in use: dxgkrnl

alternatively if I do a sudo lshw -C display results would be:

 *-display:0
       description: 3D controller
       product: Basic Render Driver
       vendor: Microsoft Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@5ba5:00:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=dxgkrnl latency=0
       resources: irq:0
  *-display:1
       description: 3D controller
       product: Basic Render Driver
       vendor: Microsoft Corporation
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@e7a1:00:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=dxgkrnl latency=0
       resources: irq:0

Anyone has any idea how to resolve this? Thanks in advance

PS for reference, if i do a nivida-smi on powershell it would have:

+---------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 452.39       Driver Version: 452.39       CUDA Version: 11.0     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name            TCC/WDDM | Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Quadro P620        WDDM  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 34%   40C    P5    N/A /  N/A |   1064MiB /  2048MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

You mentioned "trying to run a program in Ubuntu on Windows 10". If you run Ubuntu as a virtual machine or a guest OS, then the guest OS (Ubuntu) won't be able to see the GPU in the host OS (Windows 10) unless you have GPU pass-through enabled.

There is also a related question on GPU pass-through for WSL2:

Getting GPU passthrough to work on WSL2 for windows 10

, which says that the patch 21H2 is needed for GPU pass-through to work.