First Use

Important!Important!Important

Do not use sudo apt-get upgrade and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade .
Do not use sudo apt upgrade and sudo apt dist-upgrade .

To prevent being upgraded, you can comment out the official Jetson apt source of NVIDIA:

 cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-l4t-apt-source.list 
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2019-2024 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-NvidiaProprietary
#
# NVIDIA CORPORATION, its affiliates and licensors retain all intellectual
# property and proprietary rights in and to this material, related
# documentation and any modifications thereto. Any use, reproduction,
# disclosure or distribution of this material and related documentation
# without an express license agreement from NVIDIA CORPORATION or
# its affiliates is strictly prohibited.

#deb https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/common r36.4 main
#deb https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/t234 r36.4 main
#deb https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/ffmpeg r36.4 main

Jetpack

OS Kernel CUDA
JetPack 6 Ubuntu 22.04 5.15 12

The following commands will install all other JetPack components that correspond to your version of Jetson Linux L4T:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-jetpack
sudo apt-cache show nvidia-jetpack

jtop

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install -U jetson-stats

browser

If the browser fails to open after installation, please follow the steps below:

snap download snapd --revision=24724
sudo snap ack snapd_24724.assert
sudo snap install snapd_24724.snap

nvpmodel

7W 15W 25W MAXN_SUPER
Jetson Orin Nano 8GB Mode ID 0 Mode ID 1 N/A N/A
Jetson Orin Nano 8GB SUPER N/A Mode ID 0 Mode ID 1 Mode ID 2
MAXN_SUPER MAXN 10W 15W 20W 40W
Jetson Orin NX 8GB N/A Mode ID 0 Mode ID 1 Mode ID 2 Mode ID 3 N/A
Jetson Orin NX 8GB SUPER Mode ID 0 N/A Mode ID 1 Mode ID 2 Mode ID 3 Mode ID 4
MAXN_SUPER MAXN 10W 15W 25W 40W
Jetson Orin NX 16GB N/A Mode ID 0 Mode ID 1 Mode ID 2 Mode ID 3 N/A
Jetson Orin NX 16GB SUPER Mode ID 0 N/A Mode ID 1 Mode ID 2 Mode ID 3 Mode ID 4

Commands

  • get power mode: sudo nvpmodel -q

  • set power mode: sudo nvpmodel -m <x>

    • <x> is the power Mode ID (for example, 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4).

GUI

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  • To switch the current power mode, click the NVIDIA icon to open a dropdown menu from the icon

  • Click “Power mode” to open a submenu of power modes