No drivers needed after installing nvidia-driver-550

[burianvlastimil]

Hello,

I ran into an issue, when mintdrivers shows No drivers needed in spite I have an Nvidia 1060 card, for which I manually installed latest available official driver from repository with command:

$ sudo apt-get --install-recommends install nvidia-driver-550

My Linux Mint version is 21.3 Cinnamon 64-bit (non-edge version) but with installed kernel version 6.5.0-35-generic.

If I run it from terminal, there is information that my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile device is being ignored:

$ mintdrivers
$ Checking Internet connectivity...
  --> Computer is online
Updating cache
Cache updated
Ignoring device: NVIDIA Corporation: GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile] (manually_installed)
Your computer does not need any additional drivers

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Let me just note, that I will not reboot this machine unless absolutely necessary.

Cheers!

PS1: I report this only for other users to have it resolved. I myself do not use Mint's Driver Manager.

PS2: Basic computer info:

$ neofetch 
             ...-:::::-...                 vlastimil@dell-7577 
          .-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-.              ------------------- 
      .-MMMM`..-:::::::-..`MMMM-.          OS: Linux Mint 21.3 x86_64 
    .:MMMM.:MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:.MMMM:.        Host: Inspiron 7577 
   -MMM-M---MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.MMM-       Kernel: 6.5.0-35-generic 
 `:MMM:MM`  :MMMM:....::-...-MMMM:MMM:`    Uptime: 8 hours, 14 mins 
 :MMM:MMM`  :MM:`  ``    ``  `:MMM:MMM:    Packages: 3608 (dpkg), 21 (flatpak), 12 (snap) 
.MMM.MMMM`  :MM.  -MM.  .MM-  `MMMM.MMM.   Shell: bash 5.1.16 
:MMM:MMMM`  :MM.  -MM-  .MM:  `MMMM-MMM:   Resolution: 1920x1080 
:MMM:MMMM`  :MM.  -MM-  .MM:  `MMMM:MMM:   DE: Cinnamon 
:MMM:MMMM`  :MM.  -MM-  .MM:  `MMMM-MMM:   WM: Mutter (Muffin) 
.MMM.MMMM`  :MM:--:MM:--:MM:  `MMMM.MMM.   WM Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Orange (Mint-Y) 
 :MMM:MMM-  `-MMMMMMMMMMMM-`  -MMM-MMM:    Theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Orange [GTK2/3] 
  :MMM:MMM:`                `:MMM:MMM:     Icons: Mint-Y-Yaru [GTK2/3] 
   .MMM.MMMM:--------------:MMMM.MMM.      Terminal: gnome-terminal 
     '-MMMM.-MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM-.MMMM-'       CPU: Intel i7-7700HQ (8) @ 3.800GHz 
       '.-MMMM``--:::::--``MMMM-.'         GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 
            '-MMMMMMMMMMMMM-'              GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630 
               ``-:::::-``                 Memory: 4811MiB / 31950MiB