I followed the procedure here:
and am still getting this:
nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
Looks like nouveau is still loading? Which is a problem.
lsmod | grep -i nouv
nouveau 2478080 0
mxm_wmi 16384 1 nouveau
wmi 32768 2 mxm_wmi,nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 nouveau
drm_display_helper 155648 1 nouveau
video 53248 1 nouveau
drm_ttm_helper 16384 2 vmwgfx,nouveau
ttm 81920 3 vmwgfx,drm_ttm_helper,nouveau
drm_kms_helper 184320 5 vmwgfx,drm_display_helper,nouveau
drm 602112 8 vmwgfx,drm_kms_helper,drm_display_helper,drm_ttm_helper,ttm,nouveau