ubuntu-drivers --gpgpu is not installing -server packages
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Discovered while testing the ubuntu-
While waiting on bionic to deploy for verification, something was bugging me about Focal verification from the other day so I re-deployed a DL380 with 4x T4 GPGPUs with Focal and added u-d-c from proposed. What I missed when verifying the other day was that it actually isn't installing the -server package on my server in gpgpu mode. After chatting a bit with Alberto, --gpgpu is supposed to install the nvidia-
Attached is a tarball from a fresh focal install that includes the output when doing 'ubuntu-drivers --gpgpu install' and 'ubuntu-drivers --gpgpu debug' after installing the driver.
This is still broken as of 1:0.8.6.3~0.18.04.2
$ ubuntu-drivers --gpgpu devices pci0000: c9/0000: c9:02.0/ 0000:ca: 00.0/0000: cb:01.0/ 0000:cd: 00.0 == 00020B5sv000010 DEsd00001533bc0 3sc02i00 driver- 470-server - distro non-free xorg-video- nouveau - distro free builtin
This is gpgpu mode
== /sys/devices/
modalias : pci:v000010DEd0
vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
driver : nvidia-
driver : nvidia-driver-470 - distro non-free recommended
driver : xserver-
This system has 8x A100 compute GPUs, is running Ubuntu Server, and I specified --gpgpu because I want the server compute drivers. But U/D is still insisting on installing the desktop graphics driver instead