[SOLVED] Installing NVIDIA drivers?

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ipkpjersi

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Hi,

I have two servers running Proxmox 5.3 each with an NVIDIA GT730. I am trying to install NVIDIA drivers so I can use nvidia-smi to monitor the GPU temperatures because I am curious.

I have tried installing the nvidia-driver from stretch non-free as well as stretch-backports non-free, however it does not work. When I try "modprobe nvidia", this is the output I see: https://i.imgur.com/SMjm2dz.png

When I run "dkms status", it says "nvidia-current 384.130, added" or something similar (can't really remember, I have purged the drivers for now).

Does anyone have any advice for installing NVIDIA drivers on Proxmox?

Thanks.
 
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Looks like the module was not compiled already into kernel right. Can you post your completely installszenario?
 
I'm not sure how it didn't compile properly - it did install dkms and dkms did output something to the effect of "nvidia-current 383.10, added" or something similar.

How do i post an installzenario? I'm not sure what that means, I'm not super experienced with Linux.
 
ipkpjersi said:
I'm not sure how it didn't compile properly - it did install dkms and dkms did output something to the effect of "nvidia-current 383.10, added" or something similar.

How do i post an installzenario? I'm not sure what that means, I'm not super experienced with Linux.
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Yes i meant that. Reinstall it an post the output from apt/dkms.
 
fireon said:
Yes i meant that. Reinstall it an post the output from apt/dkms.
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As I had thought I recalled earlier, here is the output of "dkms status":
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Here is the output of "modprobe nvidia":
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ipkpjersi said:
Here is the log:
https://hastebin.com/awanamedun.sql

I'm not sure how to install the kernel headers for a PVE kernel.
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You see, that didn't work:
Code: 
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Module build for kernel 4.15.18-9-pve was skipped since the
kernel headers for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
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You must install the headers before.
Code: 
apt install pve-headers
 
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Hi,

Yep, pve-headers was the package name I needed to install. After that, I installed nvidia-driver again and then it installed the DKMS modules properly this time and the driver loaded successfully. I then downloaded and installed nvidia-smi which works great now.

Thanks.
 
ipkpjersi said:
Hi,

Yep, pve-headers was the package name I needed to install. After that, I installed nvidia-driver again and then it installed the DKMS modules properly this time and the driver loaded successfully. I then downloaded and installed nvidia-smi which works great now.

Thanks.
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Fine :) So please mark the Thread as "solved" by edit the first post. Thanks.
 
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