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My laptop has Nvidia Geforce 920M but it was not getting detected on Ubuntu 21.04 when nouveau open source drivers were set. Today I installed propietary tested drivers(nvidia-driver-460) through command line and rebooted and then my gpu was detected. But with these drivers, I am facing a problem. If I put my laptop to suspend mode, it does not wake up properly. There is only a blank screen and an underscore symbol. I have to restart my laptop.

After I faced this issue, I changed the drivers to nouveau opensource again and there is no such issue of not waking up there. But with these opensource drivers, my graphics card is not getting detected.

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According to the Nvidia website, you are using the wrong driver version for your particular card.

Run the following commands to ensure proper installation and configuration of the correct proprietary driver:

sudo apt update
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
mchid
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I installed nvidia-driver-390 for my geforce 920M by typing sudo apt install nvidia-driver-390 in the terminal and now I don't have any issue.

EDIT: Few softwares gave an error that nvidia-driver-390 was too old and I needed a newer version to make them work properly, so I started testing some other drivers for my GPU and found that nvidia-driver-418-server is also working fine.

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Try adding the nvidia ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

and then installing the drivers as shown here.

Also

ubuntu-drivers devices

can recommend a driver.

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