Originally Posted by
mastablasta
purge would be better, just in case there are some "old settings" that could interfere with new version.
I followed 'Upgrading Your Nvidia Driver' from here ...
https://www.maketecheasier.com/insta...rivers-ubuntu/
... and, as it happens, when you install the new driver, it takes care of uninstalling the old one. (I could see it doing away with nvidia-driver-440 in the terminal during the 450 install.) Neat.
I installed the nvidia-driver-450 and Nvidia X Server Settings now works (although it's not showing much and there's virtually nothing tweakable) and it looks like the card is working, too. At least there's a process happening whereas there wasn't one showing previously.
Code:
:~$ nvidia-smi
Fri Jul 24 02:01:07 2020
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 450.57 Driver Version: 450.57 CUDA Version: 11.0 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 165... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 39C P8 1W / N/A | 6MiB / 3911MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 982 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
I don't really understand what the process is doing, but from the notes on the new driver, it seems the 450 plays better with xorg than the previous. (There is a good article on that driver here). Despite the process showing, I still have this ...
Code:
:~$ nvidia-smi --query
==============NVSMI LOG==============
Timestamp : Fri Jul 24 02:17:17 2020
Driver Version : 450.57
CUDA Version : 11.0
Attached GPUs : 1
GPU 00000000:01:00.0
Product Name : GeForce GTX 1650 Ti
Product Brand : GeForce
Display Mode : Disabled
Display Active : Disabled
Persistence Mode : Disabled
MIG Mode
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
Accounting Mode : Disabled
Accounting Mode Buffer Size : 4000
Driver Model
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
Serial Number : N/A
GPU UUID : GPU-478032cf-a2ee-befc-da9d-96964836c5c4
Minor Number : 0
VBIOS Version : 90.17.42.00.21
MultiGPU Board : No
Board ID : 0x100
GPU Part Number : N/A
Inforom Version
Image Version : G001.0000.02.04
OEM Object : 1.1
ECC Object : N/A
Power Management Object : N/A
GPU Operation Mode
Current : N/A
Pending : N/A
GPU Virtualization Mode
Virtualization Mode : None
Host VGPU Mode : N/A
IBMNPU
Relaxed Ordering Mode : N/A
There is more, but you get the idea from 'Display mode: disabled' and 'Display Active: disabled', etc.
* I just played a video in Youtube and ran nvidia-smi in a terminal while I was doing it and the output is exactly the same as the output posted above. So I still don't think it's using the card for vid, although I've moved forward a step. There is a process running now at least, whatever it is.
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