NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU not working with Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel 5.8.0-50-generic
I fixed this by first reinstalling Ubuntu 21.04. (I knew this was a step in the right direction because my monitor finally started working!)
Once Ubuntu 21.04 was installed, I first tried reinstalling the nvidia drivers using the Software & Updates, then rebooting to disable secure boot. When I disabled secure boot, it still wouldn't boot, so I re-enabled secure boot, did prime-select intel
, then purged Nvidia similar to this (https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/newly-installed-drivers-are-not-found-when-nvidia-smi-is-called/82686/7).
I rebooted, I disabled secure boot, it finally booted. However, when I tried to install the Nvidia drivers using Software & Updates it would not boot again with Secure Boot disabled.
I discovered I had to install the Nvidia drivers using terminal
ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
Thus, the procedure was
- Install Ubuntu 21.04
prime-select intel
- purge nvidia drivers
sudo apt-get remove --purge '^nvidia-.*'
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get --purge remove "*cublas*" "cuda*"
sudo apt-get --purge remove "*nvidia*"
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sudo apt autoremove
sudo reboot
- Reboot, disable secure boot in BIOS
- Reinstall Nvidia as such
sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
sudo reboot
I have yet to re-enable secure boot as I am scared that it will not boot and I will have to go through this process again.
Oliver
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Oliver over 1 year
I recently created a dual-boot on my Asus ROG STRIX Scar 15 w/ NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU. I had some issues installing Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, but finally got it to work, however, my GPU is not coming up when I look for it in Terminal.
Looking at the
ubuntu-drivers devices
I get::~$ ubuntu-drivers devices == /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:01:00.0 == modalias : pci:v000010DEd0000249Csv00001043sd00001602bc03sc00i00 vendor : NVIDIA Corporation driver : nvidia-driver-460 - third-party non-free recommended driver : nvidia-driver-460-server - distro non-free driver : nvidia-driver-465 - third-party non-free driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin
I tried purging nvidia, reinstalling, rebooting, etc. but nothing seems to work. When I go into my Ubuntu settings the GPU that is shown is: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.0, 256 bits).
When I try
lspci | grep VGA
I get:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 249c (rev a1) 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 1638 (rev c5)
Additionally, when I try nvidia-smi I get "NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running."
When I try
nvidia-settings
I get:ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system (nvidia-settings:5634): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 15:28:57.073: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed ** Message: 15:28:57.075: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort ** Message: 15:28:57.075: PRIME: is it supported? no
When I type
prime-select query
the only item isnvidia
(which used to show nothing butondemand
).I tried downloading from the nvidia site with the .run file, I tried autoinstall, I tried
prime-select intel
then reboot then back toprime select-nvidia
, but nvidia-smi and nvidia-settings still fails.Please help!
Additional Info:
When I try
sudo lshw -C video
I get*-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: NVIDIA Corporation vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: iomemory:f80-f7f iomemory:fc0-fbf memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:f800000000-fbffffffff memory:fc00000000-fc01ffffff ioport:f000(size=128) memory:fc000000-fc07ffff *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller product: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0 version: c5 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix vga_controller bus_master cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: iomemory:fc0-fbf iomemory:fc0-fbf memory:fc10000000-fc1fffffff memory:fc20000000-fc201fffff ioport:d000(size=256) memory:fc500000-fc57ffff
which doesnt seem right to me?
My monitor will also not work in Linux, which also seems to have something to do with the GPU.