Ubuntu 18.04 cannot find NVidia drivers

Question

So, yesterday I went from windows to Ubuntu 18.04.
The problem is, it seems, that Ubuntu does not "accept" my Nvidia drivers. I'm running two graphics card: Intel and Nvidia GTX1050.

I have tried almost all different approaches now:
I installed the drivers using sudo apt-get nvidia-410, sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall, and I have tried downloading them from NVidias homepage, but now I'm simply lost.

If I call lshw -c video there is no driver under "configuration" for my Nvidia (there is for Intel), if i call sudo nvidia-settings it throws two errors:

ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded
ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

I have, right now, absolutely no idea what to try...

Solution 1

What turned out to do the trick was to disable "secure booting" then purge nvidia and reinstall it using sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall.

Now it works like a charm!

Solution 2

Run

software-properties-gtk

This will open Software & Updates.

Go to Additional Drivers Check Nvidia driver and Apply Changes.

Comments

[Admin]

You might want to clarify what is "my Nvidia drivers". Are those personal modified, custom made drivers? How many are they? Also outputs of ubuntu-drivers devices or ubuntu-drivers debug could be useful, in case you are interested in a driver from the repositories.

[Admin]

Did you run sudo apt-get update at any time after the install? That makes many more packages available.

[CutePoison]

That I've done after each installation (:NVIDIA can still not be found as a driver

[David Bodow]

I found this guy's notes for setting up nvidia drivers with secureboot on to be helpful if disabling it feels too insecure for future question readers: gist.github.com/bitsurgeon/b0f4440984c9e60dcd8fe8bbc346c029

[arshad]

This still works for Ubuntu 18.04 with Nvidia Graphics card in 2020