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NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a company that develops and manufactures graphics processing units and multimedia devices for computers.

It supplied graphics card chipsets for video game consoles such as the Xbox and PlayStation 3, and on December 14, 2005, NVIDIA acquired ULI. That company produced the south bridges used in ATI chipsets. Its headquarters is in Santa Clara, California.

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Uninstall nvidia driver 

sudo nvidia-uninstall

If you need to remove it manually, try the following.

sudo apt-get remove --purge '^nvidia-.*'

In recent versions, the following commands solve it: 

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

Reboot. 

sudo reboot

(After rebooting) Obtain administrator privileges to stop all processes using the GPU: 

sudo -i

Close all processes using the GPU and disable the nvidia driver. 

systemctl isolate multi-user.target
modprobe -r nvidia-drm

For reference:

  • modprobe's -r option: removes a module or removes atuoclean modules
  • systemctl's isolate command: applies immediately to the current session

(For reference) The default driver is enabled as follows. 

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
echo 'nouveau' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

Starting without a monitor

See CUDA:Troubleshooting#Without Monitor.

Hanging on reboot

See CUDA:Troubleshooting#Stop on reboot.

Driver installation problems 

ERROR: An NVIDIA kernel module 'nvidia-drm' appears to already be loaded in your kernel.  This may be because it is in use (for example, by an X server, a CUDA program, or the NVIDIA Persistence Daemon), but this may also happen if your kernel was configured without support for module unloading.  Please be sure to exit any programs that may be using the GPU(s) before attempting to upgrade your driver.  If no GPU-based programs are running, you know that your kernel supports module unloading, and you still receive this message, then an error may have occurred that has corrupted an NVIDIA kernel module's usage count, for which the simplest remedy is to reboot your computer.

In short, 

드라이버를 업그레이드하기 전에 GPU를 사용하고 있을 수 있는 모든 프로그램을 종료하십시오.

Refer to #Uninstall nvidia driver to remove the driver and reinstall it.

The Nouveau kernel driver is currently in use by your system 

WARNING: The Nouveau kernel driver is currently in use by your system. This driver is incompatible with the NVIDIA driver, and must be disabled before proceeding.

The Nouveau kernel driver must be Disabled before proceeding.

How to force the fan to spin 

## X 서버 필요
nvidia-settings -a "[gpu:0]/GPUFanControlState=1" -a "[fan:0]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100"

How to monitor: 

nvidia-smi -i 0 -pm 1

GTC Korea 2015

GTC Korea 2015 NVIDIA Korea/GTC Korea 2015 presentation materials

  • Track_1_-_Deep_Learning.zip
  • Track_2_-_GPU_Accelerated_Science.zip
  • Track_3_-_CUDA_Computer_Vision.zip
  • Track_4_-_Cloud_Virtualization.zip

AttentionNet for Accurate Localization and Detection of Objects

Local download: 1506.07704v2_-_Aggregating_Weak_Directions_for_Accurate_Object_Detection.pdf

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  1. List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units_-_Wikipedia.pdf (2019-10-17) ↩

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