## Scenario - `Additional drivers` was showing manually installed driver, all the drivers were greyed out. - `nvidia-smi` was not working. - CUDA was installed. ## Steps to install Nvidia Driver in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Install nvidia driver from terminal ``` sudo ubuntu-drivers install --gpgpu ``` - It installed Nvidia driver 575 and still `nvidia-smi` was not working. - Opened the `Additional drivers` and installed `nvidia-driver-570`. - The `nvidia-smi` is working: ``` nvidia-smi Thu Jul 10 20:10:26 2025 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 570.158.01 Driver Version: 570.158.01 CUDA Version: 12.8 | |-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ | 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 ... On | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A | | N/A 54C P3 590W / 60W | 14MiB / 8188MiB | 17% Default | | | | N/A | +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=========================================================================================| | 0 N/A N/A 2925 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ```