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Created November 18, 2021 10:23 — forked from espoirMur/install_nvidia_driver.md
How I fix this issue NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running

I had many driver installed I my virtual machine , so It was actually the reason why I was having the error.

To fix it I had first to remove all driver I have installed before using :

  • sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*
  • sudo apt-get update -sudo apt-get autoremove

After that I when a head and installed the latest version of it nvidia driver:

I did :