
Just installed 21.10 to see if that could help, but I'm thinking may just be best to use a lighter weight distro. Problem is there are long pauses in operations, especially opening Firefox, to the point it isn't useable - what's the best way to troubleshoot? 20.04 Ubuntu installs fine and depending on what we do it works good, just don't go online I guess. Also 8gib memory but cpu is a dual core Intel e7600, so yeah a bit less powerful but should be good. 8gib memory, i5-2400s 2.5ghz x4, running Ubuntu 20.04 without a hitch, love it, works greatįast forward and my youngest is in kindergarten now, wants to be like big sister with a computer, got an iMac from a friend that's very similar, I think it's late 2009 or 2010. | 0 GeForce GT 710 On | 00000000:07:00.A bit over a year ago now I needed to set up my daughter with a computer for distance learning, I used my mother's old iMac from around 2011 I think. | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M.

| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. You can check if everything was installed correctly by running the command nvidia-smi, which should return a similar-looking output: +-+ If X fails to find the NVIDIA X driver module, please install the `pkg-config` utility and the X.Org SDK/development package for your distribution and reinstall the driver. WARNING: nvidia-installer was forced to guess the X library path '/usr/lib' and X module path '/usr/lib/xorg/modules' these paths were not queryable from the system. Sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-460.67.runįollow all the prompts the installer gives.ĭuring installation, you may get a warning similar to the one below. I ran the following commands: cd ~/Įxecute the command sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc-multilib dkms. sudo apt-get purge nvidia*įor me, I chose the 460.67 driver, which is the latest production branch version at the time of writing this. I tried to install the driver via apt previously, which failed, so I had to ensure any previous NVIDIA packages were removed. Remove Any Previous Installations (*IMPORTANT*) As I initially stated in my question, attempting to install the driver on my Ubuntu 20.04 server OS didn't work (maybe it's a bug, I'm not sure), but I've detailed the exact steps I took below, which worked for me.Īfter getting the driver to work, I could just install CUDA the standard way.
