Installing GPU drivers on my Ubuntu Lenovo Thinkpad laptop (nvidia-driver)
I had to run the following commands
ubuntu-drivers devicesWARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-510: package has invalid Support PBheader, cannot determine support level
WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-390: package has invalid Support Legacyheader, cannot determine support level
WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-510-server: package has invalid Support PBheader, cannot determine support level
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001BBBsv000017AAsd0000225Fbc03sc00i00
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
model : GP104GLM [Quadro P3200 Mobile]
driver : nvidia-driver-418-server - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-450-server - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-510 - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-390 - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-470 - distro non-free recommended
driver : nvidia-driver-470-server - distro non-free
driver : nvidia-driver-510-server - distro non-free
driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
list display units
sudo lshw -numeric -C display *-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GP104GLM [Quadro P3200 Mobile] [10DE:1BBB]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation [10DE]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
resources: irq:152 memory:c0000000-c0ffffff memory:60000000-6fffffff memory:70000000-71ffffff ioport:3000(size=128) memory:c1080000-c10fffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: UHD Graphics 630 (Mobile) [8086:3E9B]
vendor: Intel Corporation [8086]
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:151 memory:bf000000-bfffffff memory:80000000-8fffffff ioport:4000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
Then run
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-510: package has invalid Support PBheader, cannot determine support level
WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-510-server: package has invalid Support PBheader, cannot determine support level
WARNING:root:_pkg_get_support nvidia-driver-390: package has invalid Support Legacyheader, cannot determine support level
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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The following additional packages will be installed:
libnvidia-cfg1-470 libnvidia-common-470 libnvidia-compute-470 libnvidia-compute-470:i386 libnvidia-decode-470 libnvidia-decode-470:i386
libnvidia-encode-470 libnvidia-encode-470:i386 libnvidia-extra-470 libnvidia-fbc1-470 libnvidia-fbc1-470:i386 libnvidia-gl-470
libnvidia-gl-470:i386 libnvidia-ifr1-470 libnvidia-ifr1-470:i386 linux-modules-nvidia-470-5.4.0-107-generic
linux-objects-nvidia-470-5.4.0-107-generic linux-signatures-nvidia-5.4.0-107-generic nvidia-compute-utils-470 nvidia-kernel-common-470
nvidia-kernel-source-470 nvidia-prime nvidia-settings nvidia-utils-470 screen-resolution-extra xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-470
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libnvidia-cfg1-470 libnvidia-common-470 libnvidia-compute-470 libnvidia-compute-470:i386 libnvidia-decode-470 libnvidia-decode-470:i386
libnvidia-encode-470 libnvidia-encode-470:i386 libnvidia-extra-470 libnvidia-fbc1-470 libnvidia-fbc1-470:i386 libnvidia-gl-470
libnvidia-gl-470:i386 libnvidia-ifr1-470 libnvidia-ifr1-470:i386 linux-modules-nvidia-470-5.4.0-107-generic
linux-modules-nvidia-470-generic linux-objects-nvidia-470-5.4.0-107-generic linux-signatures-nvidia-5.4.0-107-generic
nvidia-compute-utils-470 nvidia-driver-470 nvidia-kernel-common-470 nvidia-kernel-source-470 nvidia-prime nvidia-settings
nvidia-utils-470 screen-resolution-extra xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-470
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nvidia-peermem.ko: OK
nvidia-uvm.ko: OK
nvidia.ko: OK
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/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:
* dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 5.4.0-107-generic
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/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
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/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub:
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Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-107-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-105-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-105-generic
Found Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) on /dev/mmcblk0p2
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done
We now need to reboot
sudo shutdown -r 0
We can now run the nvidia settings menu
sudo nvidia-settings
