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A minimalist guide to a few frameworks⁠—on Ubuntu and Vector computing⁠—for the person who was born yesterday

Written by a novice for the novice

Appendix A - Ubuntu 18.04 and NVIDIA drivers on Lenovo P52

The following instructions are for a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit on a Lenovo P52 (i7-8850H/Quadro P2000)

Everything after a $ is entered on a terminal; everything after >>> is passed to a Python interpreter

Download Ubuntu 18.04 LTS's 64-bit ISO image

$ wget https://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ubuntu-18.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso

And create a bootable USB stick—e.g., on Ubuntu, using Startup Disk Creator

Important: at boot time, enter the Lenovo P52's BIOS pressing Enter, then F1

NOTE 1: These instructions were tested on a machine with UEFI BIOS Version 1.37, if you have an older BIOS, update it (link) before changing any of the settings: black screen problems have been fixed up to version 1.18 (changelog)

  1. Under the Config menu, enter the Display submenu
  • Set Graphic Device to Discrete Graphics (and not Hybrid Graphics)⁠—this will prevent crashes during the installation
  1. Under the Security menu, enter the Secure Boot submenu
  • Set Secure Boot to Disabled⁠—this will let you install NVIDIA graphic drivers

Install Ubuntu 18 (if possible, use Wi-Fi to "download updates and install 3rd party software" during the process)

[2021 Update] NOTE 2: If you are installing Ubuntu 20.04 instead, ignore the next 2 lines and skip to "Software & Updates" -> "Additional Drivers" to install the newest proprietary driver

At the time of the first login, click the gear icon besides "Sign in"; choose "Ubuntu on Wayland"

The graphical interface will be very slow⁠—this is expected, the system is not using the GPU nor the CPU integrated graphics

If prompted, install updates from "Software Updater"

Open the "Software & Updates" application: NVIDIA's proprietary driver nvidia-driver-440 should be available

Select it, click apply, and reboot: this time around, the graphical interface will be running smoothly

Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+t) and run command $ nvidia-smi: it will report the use of driver 440 and CUDA 10.2

Work carried out @ University of Toronto's Dynamic Systems Lab / Vector Institute / Mitacs Elevate