[SOLVED] Installing NVIDIA drivers?

[ipkpjersi]

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.

 

[fireon]

Looks like the module was not compiled already into kernel right. Can you post your completely installszenario?

 

[ipkpjersi]

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.

 

[fireon]

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.

Yes i meant that. Reinstall it an post the output from apt/dkms.

 

[ipkpjersi]

Yes i meant that. Reinstall it an post the output from apt/dkms.

As I had thought I recalled earlier, here is the output of "dkms status":

Here is the output of "modprobe nvidia":

 

[fireon]

Really all the output from your installationprocess. Like this https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-latest-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-16-04-xenial-xerus

 

[ipkpjersi]

Here is the log:
https://hastebin.com/awanamedun.sql

I'm not sure how to install the kernel headers for a PVE kernel.

 

[fireon]

Here is the log:
https://hastebin.com/awanamedun.sql

I'm not sure how to install the kernel headers for a PVE kernel.

You see, that didn't work:

...
Module build for kernel 4.15.18-9-pve was skipped since the
kernel headers for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
...

You must install the headers before.

apt install pve-headers

 

[ipkpjersi]

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.

 

[fireon]

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.

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