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I̶ h̶a̶v̶e̶ N̶V̶I̶D̶I̶A̶ O̶p̶t̶i̶m̶u̶s̶ a̶n̶d̶ I̶ h̶a̶v̶e̶n̶’t̶ b̶e̶e̶n̶ a̶b̶l̶e̶ t̶o̶ g̶e̶t̶ a̶n̶y̶ m̶e̶t̶h̶o̶d̶ o̶f̶ i̶n̶s̶t̶a̶l̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ N̶V̶I̶D̶I̶A̶ d̶r̶i̶v̶e̶r̶s̶ t̶o̶ w̶o̶r̶k̶. I̶ d̶o̶n̶’t̶ n̶e̶c̶e̶s̶s̶a̶r̶i̶l̶y̶ c̶a̶r̶e̶ a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ t̶h̶e̶ f̶u̶l̶l̶ s̶w̶i̶t̶c̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ a̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ o̶f̶ t̶h̶e̶ O̶p̶t̶i̶m̶u̶s̶, a̶l̶t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ s̶u̶r̶e̶ i̶t̶ w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ b̶e̶ n̶i̶c̶e̶. I̶ a̶l̶s̶o̶ h̶a̶v̶e̶ b̶e̶e̶n̶ u̶n̶s̶u̶c̶c̶e̶s̶s̶f̶u̶l̶ t̶u̶r̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ o̶f̶f̶ t̶h̶e̶ I̶n̶t̶e̶l̶ U̶H̶D̶ g̶r̶a̶p̶h̶i̶c̶s̶ (̶a̶s̶ a̶n̶ o̶p̶t̶i̶o̶n̶)̶. M̶y̶ c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶ i̶s̶ a̶n̶ M̶S̶I̶ S̶w̶o̶r̶d̶ 1̶5̶ A̶1̶1̶U̶D̶, w̶i̶t̶h̶ N̶V̶I̶D̶I̶A̶ C̶o̶r̶p̶o̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ G̶A̶1̶0̶7̶M̶ [̶G̶e̶F̶o̶r̶c̶e̶ R̶T̶X̶ 3̶0̶5̶0̶ T̶i̶ M̶o̶b̶i̶l̶e̶]̶ 3̶D̶ g̶r̶a̶p̶h̶i̶c̶s̶. I̶ h̶a̶v̶e̶ i̶n̶s̶t̶a̶l̶l̶e̶d̶ u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ t̶h̶e̶ D̶r̶i̶v̶e̶r̶ M̶a̶n̶a̶g̶e̶r̶ i̶n̶ M̶i̶n̶t̶, a̶n̶d̶ a̶l̶s̶o̶ m̶a̶n̶u̶a̶l̶l̶y̶. I̶ h̶a̶v̶e̶ c̶h̶e̶c̶k̶e̶d̶ a̶n̶d̶ I̶ a̶m̶ u̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ t̶h̶e̶ 5̶5̶0̶ d̶r̶i̶v̶e̶r̶, w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ I̶ t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ i̶s̶ s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶s̶e̶d̶ t̶o̶ b̶e̶ t̶h̶e̶ r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ o̶n̶e̶.
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I am having trouble transitioning to Linux where I am not able to simply navigate to additional hard drives contained in my laptop or attached via usb. I have my torrents on an external drive, and it keeps getting renamed, easystore somehow became “owned” by root and inaccessible, and I had to switch to easystore1 which was created in the same folder. After I switched, easystore1 became owned by root, and I had to switch to easystore2, which had been created.
In addition to this, I can’t browse to the external hard drive through plex media server or radarr/sonarr, it just doesn’t show on the menu. I know it’s a permission issue, but I don’t understand how that works.
I was happy up to a point, but my Linux installation is becoming what I was afraid of, a test showing me how little I know, and a time-eater that causes my wife to wonder what happened to her husband.
Please, I want to be free, but I don’t want to just say bye to my hard drives and my GPU. Help me, community. You’re my only hope.
You say you haven’t been able to install Nvidia drivers, but then say you are using 550 drivers. Are you saying you can’t run any games or programs that engage your GPU? Open and terminal and run
nvidia-smi
and see what the output is.What is the filesystem on these drives? If it’s NTFS, they will be mounted as read-only by default and show as owned by root. This is by design to prevent potential damage to NTFS filesystems which are technically a Windows-only thing. You do have the option of changing this behavior, but it will inevitably cause problems because the open driver to run these filesystems on Linux still runs into some MS proprietary filesystem issues. If you have the option of copying the files on each drive to your local drive, reformatting the externals into another more friendly filesystem, then copying the files back, you’ll be in a much better place. I would suggest exFat to make things simplest for you, since it sounds like you may be plugging those drivers into other Windows machines, potentially.
I’m pretty sure you’ve got a race condition with the Nouveau driver getting loaded first then. That’s the open source Nvidia driver in the stock kernels. Run
lsmod | grep nouveau
to confirm (if you get lines returned, then it’s loaded.You can sidestep this by blacklisting it and giving the installed Nvidia driver a chance to load first. Instructions here (use the Ubuntu section)
Reboot, and then you should be good to go. If
nvidia-smi
still doesn’t show the correct output, you may need to just reinstall the driver packages again.Seems like a promising answer, I wonder why someone downvoted it. I wish they’d left a comment.
I’ll def explore it
Well that’s exactly what the issue is, so there’s your solution. Easy to confirm with one command.
Working. I had reset my BIOS and “safe boot” was back on. Turned it off, reinstalled the driver from “Driver Manager”, Used your commands and followed your instructions and found that the Nvidia driver was working. Opened Nvidia X server settings and it looked the way it should. nvidia-smi showed the whole shebang.
I knew you guys could help me. I could cry.