Ubuntu Nvidia drivers

If you see this error:

Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch
NVML library version: 550.127

Check:

uname -a
> Linux fractal 5.15.0-124-generic #134-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 27 20:20:17 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The try installing the appropriate Nvidia drivers:

sudo apt install linux-objects-nvidia-575-5.15.0-124-generic
sudo apt install nvidia-kernel-open-575

And then restart computer.

This seems to work. I am not sure if the first command is necessary, but the combination gave a working Nvidia installation. Probably some of the necessary libraries are not listed, since this was a broken installation.

Anyway, I am leaving that for my future self ;-)

Update

The real command to install the drivers, that also seem to work is as follows:

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-575

This will install all the dependencies, including things like nvidia-smi. This is particularly important when some library/tool (e.g. Docker with latest vLLM) complains about outdated NVidia driver.