UPDATE NVIDIA DRIVERS UBUNTU 22.04 VM

Hi Arià Jaimejuan,

Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Q&A platform.

Based on your question description we understand that you are experiencing issues after updating the NVIDIA drivers on an Ubuntu 20.04 VM running on a Standard NV36ads A10 v5 instance.

Here are some steps you can take to troubleshoot and resolve this issue:

Uninstall the existing NVIDIA drivers with the below following:

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

Add the Graphics Drivers PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Install the Recommended Driver:

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

Reboot the VM:

sudo reboot

After rebooting, you need to check whether the nvidia driver is correctly installed and update to the latest version of nvidia-drivers.

nvidia-smi

The Azure NVads A10 v5 VMs only support GRID 14.1(510.73) or higher driver versions. The vGPU driver for the A10 SKU is a unified driver that supports both graphics and compute workloads.

Please find the below document for your reference:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/n-series-driver-setup#supported-distributions-and-drivers

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Thank You.

when installing the drivers and rebooting the system I am unable to acces the vm.