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I installed the ppa graphic-drivers and nividia-390, now it turned out I need the CUDA packages installed instead. The CUDA-part might be easy, just be doubleclick the .runfile... but:

What exact commands do I have to make, to uninstall the drivers and reinstall the current CUDA? Should I plug the screen back into the mainboard before?

(I read some tutorials on this, but I dont really get it totally....)

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  • Try this one: https://askubuntu.com/a/1025949/231142 – Terrance May 07 '18 at 18:22
  • It is good practice to link the tutorials you have tried so that others don't tell you to look at things you have tried – Jeff May 07 '18 at 19:15
  • havent tried any tutorial yet, because the last time I tried to install CUDA, I was stuck in a login loop that I had to reinstall Ubuntu (tried ANY possible tutorial to end the loop)... for I just installed ppa and 390... it's not just two commands and then install CUDA, is it? – PortWein May 07 '18 at 19:47
  • The link I posted in the above comment does not use the graphics-drivers ppa. It uses the actual NVIDIA developers ppa for the installation of CUDA 9.1 which in turn installs the nvidia-390 drivers with it. Best to just copy and paste those commands to a terminal window. – Terrance May 07 '18 at 20:32
  • works... :) So what about kernel issues, can I just run sudo apt-get update or do I have to take care of things? Just got a kernel update waiting in the update-manager, got 4.13.0-39-generic by now... – PortWein May 08 '18 at 14:11

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Seems to work, thank you terrance!

$ nvidia-smi Tue May 8 01:00:35 2018
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 390.48 Driver Version: 390.48 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 GeForce GTX 106... Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A | | 0% 45C P8 11W / 200W | 218MiB / 6070MiB | 1% Default | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Type Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | 0 1000 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 157MiB | | 0 1760 G compiz 40MiB | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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