---
title: "Configuring NVIDIA RTX A6000 ADA in Ubuntu 22"
url: https://michalasobczak.pl/posts/configuring-nvidia-rtx-a6000-ada-in-ubuntu-22.html
author: "Michał Sobczak"
description: "I thought that installing NVIDIA RTX A6000 ADA in default Ubuntu 22 server installation would be an easy one. However, installing drivers from the repository made no good. I verified if secure boot is enable and no it was disabled."
published: 2025-03-25T09:41:22.000Z
updated: 2025-03-25T09:41:22.000Z
language: en
categories: ["AI/ML"]
tags: ["A6000", "ADA", "NVIDIA", "Ubuntu"]
license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
---
# Configuring NVIDIA RTX A6000 ADA in Ubuntu 22

I thought that installing NVIDIA RTX A6000 ADA in default Ubuntu 22 server installation would be an easy one. However, installing drivers from the repository made no good. I verified if secure boot is enable and no it was disabled.

We need to install few things first:

```bash
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install mokutil
```

We need to get rig of previously installed drivers:

```bash
sudo apt remove --purge '^nvidia-.*'
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt clean
```

Verify if secure boot is disabled:

```text
mokutil --sb-state
```

Get NVIDIA driver, such as NVIDIA-Linux-x86\_64-535.216.01.run from their webiste and install it:

```bash
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-535.216.01.run
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-535.216.01.run
```

In case you got rid of previously installed drivers, disabled secure boot and installed build tools, kernel headers… you will be good to go to compile driver module. In my case this was the only was to nvidia-smi to recognize this GPU in Ubuntu 22.