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fixing NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
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# Purge all NVIDIA libs from system
sudo apt-get remove --purge '^nvidia-.*'
sudo apt-get remove --purge '^libnvidia-.*'
sudo apt-get remove --purge '^cuda-.*'
# Update linux-headers
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
# autoremove all unneeded dependent llibs
sudo apt autoremove
# Get and run latest cuda installer
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/11.8.0/local_installers/cuda_11.8.0_520.61.05_linux.run
sh cuda_11.8.0_520.61.05_linux.run
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hokiegeek2 commented Oct 26, 2022

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