Nvidia-smi cannot find my graphics cards on Ubuntu 20.04

[ember raptor]

Good evening, I'm struggling on figuring out why NVIDIA isn't detecting my gpu
Here are the commands and ouputs I used:

 nvidia-smi
No devices were found

Searching for the ubuntu driver:

sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:02:00.0 ==
modalias : pci:v000010DEd00001F9Dsv00001462sd000012F4bc03sc02i00
vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
driver   : nvidia-driver-515 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-525-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-470-server - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-510 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-470 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-515-open - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-525 - distro non-free
driver   : nvidia-driver-525-open - distro non-free recommended
driver   : nvidia-driver-515-server - distro non-free
driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

I can open the Nvidia X server Settings, what suggestions could i do?

errors: ```
nvidia-settings

ERROR: A query to find an object was unsuccessful

ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

[mighty venture]

Do you have a laptop?

[ember raptor]

yes

could it be something wrong with cuda or cudnn?

[ember raptor]

After doing a reinstall of ubuntu, nvidia-smi still does not detect my nvidia gtx

[mighty venture]

Likely related to this being a laptop, can't help there sorry

[ember raptor]

I actually solved it myself

Here's the solution in case you're interested:

Go to software and updates -> and switched your nvidia server driver to a non-open package

for example

using NVIDIA Server Driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-525-server(proprietary)

this would work

The only downside is that you have to mannually install the settings using sudo