Why does nvidia-detector return none?

Could you help me find out why nvidia-detector returns none? Here is the output of some troubleshooting commands, by the way, Nvidia settings is installed and the driver is installed via software and updated settings

inxi -SGx

System: Host: habi-G551VW Kernel: 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.2.0 Desktop: Gnome 3.26.1 (Gtk 3.22.24-0ubuntu1) Distro: Ubuntu 17.10
Graphics: Card-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 bus-ID: 00:02.0 Card-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] bus-ID: 01:00.0 Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.5 ) drivers: modesetting,nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.02hz OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 960M/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 384.90 Direct Render: Yes

dpkg -l | grep nvidia

ii nvidia-384 384.90-0ubuntu3.17.10.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary driver - version 384.90
ii nvidia-384-dev 384.90-0ubuntu3.17.10.1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
ii nvidia-cuda-dev 8.0.61-1 amd64 NVIDIA CUDA development files
ii nvidia-cuda-doc 8.0.61-1 all NVIDIA CUDA and OpenCL documentation
ii nvidia-cuda-gdb 8.0.61-1 amd64 NVIDIA CUDA Debugger (GDB)
ii nvidia-cuda-toolkit 8.0.61-1 amd64 NVIDIA CUDA development toolkit
ii nvidia-modprobe 384.81-0ubuntu1 amd64 Load the NVIDIA kernel driver and create device files
ii nvidia-opencl-dev:amd64 8.0.61-1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL development files
ii nvidia-opencl-icd-384 384.90-0ubuntu3.17.10.1 amd64 NVIDIA OpenCL ICD
ii nvidia-prime 0.8.5 amd64 Tools to enable NVIDIA's Prime
ii nvidia-profiler 8.0.61-1 amd64 NVIDIA Profiler for CUDA and OpenCL
ii nvidia-settings 384.81-0ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-visual-profiler 8.0.61-1 amd64 NVIDIA Visual Profiler for CUDA and OpenCL

Thanks.

1 Answer

By going to the Nvidia website, you can pick your card and see what driver version you need. I did this, had a problem with one set of drivers in the repository, found that if I went to an older version then ran apt updates, it took me to the newer version but this time it worked.

I guess the newer one had a bad file that the older one provided?

That might help, sorry can't help more.