I have also tried various cuda installs but those also did not seem to work. I have tried using a run file for Linux-x86_64, 450.80.02, but that install complained about nvidia-drm kernel not being able to be found. Tragically, I have tried many different ways of installing nvidia drivers and the cuda toolkit, and I’m afraid my system might be hopelessly tied up with conflicting installs. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. My benchmark for if my install has worked is running nvidia-smi and hoping I don’t get the below error message: It’s a dual boot machine with windows on its own partition, but I am specifically trying to install the cuda and nvidia drivers for my MX250 on my Ubuntu 20.04 system.

My machine is a Lenovo T490 laptop with a MX250 dGPU, but I think it defaults to using the intel integrated graphics to run my desktop windows. I’m a computer science student trying to get nvidia drivers working for machine learning.

Ubuntu 20.04 uninstall nvidia drivers