nvidia driver with cuda support only works if installed in the wrong order

[noah jose]

For applications such as OBS 30.1.2 and Blender 4.1 to use CUDA and NVENC, the Nvidia driver for servers must be installed first, followed by the normal Nvidia driver, in that order. I believe this to be a bug because the server driver is lighter than the normal driver and the driver installation help page https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/nvidia-drivers-installation can be interpreted as saying the normal Nvidia driver should be installed first followed by the server driver.

However when this is attempted installing the server driver uninstalls the normal driver, but the server driver cannot work without the normal driver unless it is installed again afterwards

The drivers were installed using the ubuntu-drivers tool

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: nvidia-driver-535 535.171.04-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Fri May 17 20:50:13 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-05-16 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240425.1)
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-535
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)