Public bug reported:
After upgrading to Ubuntu 26.04, NVIDIA driver 580 is installed and
kernel modules load correctly:
lsmod shows nvidia, nvidia_uvm, nvidia_modeset
However:
- nvidia-smi fails with "couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver"
- OpenGL renderer stays on Intel UHD 620
- PRIME offloading does not activate NVIDIA GPU
GPU: GeForce MX110 (GM108M)
CPU: Intel i5 7th gen
System: Laptop (ASUS)
Expected:
NVIDIA GPU should be usable with nvidia-smi and PRIME.
Observed:
Driver appears loaded but GPU is not usable.
This worked correctly on Ubuntu 24.04 with nvidia-driver-535.
here is some logs
nvidia-smi
lsmod | grep nvidia
glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
dmesg | grep -i nvidia
Sat Apr 11 01:34:50 2026
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.142 Driver Version: 580.142 CUDA
Version: 13.0 |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile
Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util
Compute M. |
| | |
MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce MX110 Off | 00000000:02:00.0 Off |
N/A |
| N/A 43C P8 N/A / 200W | 3MiB / 2048MiB | 0%
Default |
| | |
N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:
|
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name
GPU Memory |
| ID ID
Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 3661 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell
0MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
nvidia_uvm 2109440 0
nvidia_drm 143360 6
nvidia_modeset 1634304 3 nvidia_drm
nvidia 104099840 45 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_drm,nvidia_modeset
drm_ttm_helper 20480 1 nvidia_drm
video 77824 4 asus_wmi,asus_nb_wmi,i915,nvidia_modeset
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2)
dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Operation not permitted
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 26.04
Package: nvidia-driver-580 580.142-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 7.0.0-13.13-generic 7.0.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 7.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.33.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Apr 11 01:29:24 2026
InstallationDate: Installed on 2026-03-22 (19 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20260210)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-580
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to resolute on 2026-04-10 (0 days ago)
** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-580 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug resolute wayland-session
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gpu fails and does not work at all on GeForce MX110 with nvidia-
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