Premis

I tried pretty much everything I could find, I will list the attempts below.

Question structured as follows: Premis, Problem, Question, Attempts.

My PC:

• Gigabyte X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI Mini ITX AM4
• AMD Ryzen 5 5600x (Zen3)
• Palit Dual GeForce RTX 3060Ti 8GB
• MX500 1TB (Ubuntu)
• Sabrent Rocket 4.0 500GB (Windows)
• MX500 2TB (storage)

Also:

• Secure Boot is Disabled (so also CSM is disabled)

Objective

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Installation for Machine Learning development, mainly GPU accelerated:

1. CUDA is needed
2. Nouveau drivers are not optimal, hence they are currently blacklisted
3. NVIDIA drivers are needed

blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

Problem

The driver is recognized as:

• It is shown in the Software & Updates as installed

Software & Updates Screenshot link.

But it is clearly not used as I'm writing this in 1024x768 (4:3).

Taking a look at drivers/what is recognized:

teniu@AW-PC:~$ sudo lshw -c video
[sudo] password for teniu: 
  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:108 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:fc000000-fc07ffff
  *-graphics
       product: EFI VGA
       physical id: 1
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       capabilities: fb
       configuration: depth=32 resolution=1024,768

teniu@AW-PC:~$ modinfo $(modprobe --resolve-alias nvidia)
modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found in directory /lib/modules/5.19.0-41-generic
modinfo: ERROR: missing module or filename.

Trying to install drivers with autoinstall, output:

raceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubuntu-drivers", line 513, in <module>
    greet()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1128, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1053, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1659, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1395, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 754, in invoke
    return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/decorators.py", line 84, in new_func
    return ctx.invoke(f, obj, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 754, in invoke
    return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/bin/ubuntu-drivers", line 432, in autoinstall
    command_install(config)
  File "/usr/bin/ubuntu-drivers", line 187, in command_install
    UbuntuDrivers.detect.nvidia_desktop_pre_installation_hook(to_install)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py", line 839, in nvidia_desktop_pre_installation_hook
    with_nvidia_kms = version >= 470
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'version' referenced before assignment

Ignoring this means installing the drivers specifying the version, so with:

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-530-open

It does its thing, then trying nvidia-smi, output:

No devices were found

Is the kernel module loaded? Seems like it is:

teniu@AW-PC:~$ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_uvm           1441792  0
nvidia_drm             77824  1
nvidia_modeset       1404928  1 nvidia_drm
nvidia               6234112  5 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
drm_kms_helper        200704  1 nvidia_drm
drm                   581632  5 drm_kms_helper,nvidia,nvidia_drm

Trying again to see if nvidia is seen:

lspci | grep -i nvidia

teniu@AW-PC:~$ lspci | grep -i nvidia
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti] (rev a1)
09:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GA104 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

Seems like it.

Question & Recap

nvidia-smi

Doesn't work, but the drivers are seen? I am clueless now.

The Ubuntu 22.04 LTS used for this is a fresh install.

What I think can be a major hint is this output, since NVIDIA modules are not found in the kernel modules directory.

teniu@AW-PC:~$ modinfo $(modprobe --resolve-alias nvidia)
modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found in directory /lib/modules/5.19.0-41-generic
modinfo: ERROR: missing module or filename.

• What am I supposed to do now?

Attempts (all failed)

• Purge and reinstall (multiple)
• Changing to 515 drivers instead of 530 (twice)
• (did I install the wrong version...?)
• Disabling Secure Boot (and try again everything)
• Fresh Ubuntu install
• Test on Windows (it works there, no hardware problems)
• Headers update, 0 updates

sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

• (I would like to avoid manual installation through download)
• Give up (not an option)

Useful but unrelated information

When I built the PC I had to update the BIOS since the motherboard didn't offer native support for the Zen3 architecture of the Ryzen 5 series.

I mention this only because at startup, I see the fast terminal gibberish and at the top there is written something about the AMD not being recognized. Although I highly doubt it is somehow related or of importance, since it works afterwards.