(from Discourse) Nvidia drivers page suggestions

Page URL

https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/how-to/graphics/install-nvidia-drivers/

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Issue Description

2 Discourse posts with suggestions for this page:

• From liaoch

  Could you please add instructions about how to check if the driver installation is successful?

  After following your instructions, I tried to use nvidia-smi and it says the driver is not there.

  systemctl status nvidia-persistenced.service shows:

  Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist

  Also /dev/nvidia* does not exist on my system after the installation.

• From abravalheri

  Hello, thank you very much for the documentation. It is very easy to follow and understand.

  Would it be possible to also include details for the headless installation?

  Browsing through the page in https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/nvidia-drivers-installation I can see that it mentions the -server suffix, but after trying I am under the impression that it install a bunch of X stuff.

  It would be interesting to have information available on how to perform an installation on a server without any display or X-related libraries (in the case the GPU can still be used for numerical computations, and other kinds of headless image processing).

Start with the NVIDIA drivers page at https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/how-to/graphics/install-nvidia-drivers/ and read the two linked Discourse posts. Document how to verify a successful installation and clarify headless installation without display or X-related libraries. Done means both reported gaps are addressed on the page and its instructions remain understandable.