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[Solved] NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldnā€˜t communicate with the NVIDIA driver.

1. Error
nvidia-smi input error:
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
input torch.cuda.is_available() return false

2. Solution

Simply execute two commands.

sudo apt-get install dkms
sudo dkms install -m nvidia -v 470.94 (470.94 is the driver version number)

Use the command ll /usr/src/ to see a nvidia-470.94/ folder underneath, the version number varies from your computer