I can confirm this bug on ubuntu 17.04. running nvidia-smi fails:
jta@rachael:~$ nvidia-smi NVIDIA-SMI couldn't find libnvidia-ml.so library in your system. Please make sure that the NVIDIA Display Driver is properly installed and present in your system. Please also try adding directory that contains libnvidia-ml.so to your system PATH. adding LD_PRELOAD with the location of libnvidia-ml.so and running nvidia-smi works: jta@rachael:~$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/nvidia-375/libnvidia-ml.so nvidia-smi Mon May 22 16:37:10 2017 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 375.39 Driver Version: 375.39 | |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | |===============================+======================+======================| | 0 Quadro K2000M Off | 0000:01:00.0 Off | N/A | | N/A 41C P0 N/A / N/A | 0MiB / 1999MiB | 0% Default | +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: GPU Memory | | GPU PID Type Process name Usage | |=============================================================================| | No running processes found | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632019 Title: [*buntu 16.04 / PRIME] nvidia-smi not work if iGPU as the primary display To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-common/+bug/1632019/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs