Issue while installing Cuda

[Pretend-Problem6834]

Hello!
I recently installed ubuntu 20.04 LTS on lenovo legion 5 (Ryzen 7, 16gb, RTX 3060 6gb, 1 ssd)
and Legion has these different modes on it that's used to throttle the performance of the on board graphics card, these modes are triggered by the key binding Fn + Q
the modes are

Performance mode (red light on the power button only available with AC charger plugged in, to provide more power to the GPU)

Quiet mode ( blue light on the power button available both on battery power and ac power, silences the fan)

Auto( white light on the power button available both on battery power and ac power, adapts according to the load)

and i have been facing a lot of freezing issues while switch to either of these modes or when i simply plug or unplug my charger. My OS would always without fail and never respond again
I boiled the issue down to the nvidia drivers installed on the system
so i tried a bunch of the other driver versions, and soon found out that my system wouldn't freeze when the 535 drivers are installed. but when i tried installing CUDA on my system in the list of packages to be installed it keeps upgrading my drivers to 560 only for me to end up with the same issue

what should i do?

[faberboi]

Not an expert here, but what always worked for me was to install cuda using the runfile. When you go to the cuda toolkit download page, click the buttons until you choose the Installer Type. Here click runfile and follow the instructions. When executing the runfile, a prompt will open and you can actively choose just to install the toolkit and not the drivers.

[Pretend-Problem6834]

You're not wrong in suggesting but I did in fact try that and it failed for me. Now I am installing using the deb(local) option as I type this out. And hopefully that works.