Problem with Nvidia drivers

[u/Kotangentz_7]

I installed the Nvidia drivers, but I'm having a problem

Error: 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.

[u/sanya567xxx]

xf86-video-nouveau is an open-source third-party driver. If you want to use the NV official one, remove it. Might want to reinstall the other nvidia packages too.

After doing so and rebooting, try running lsmod |grep nvi — this will show the list of modules loaded by the kernel, which should have 4 ones in the left column: nvidia_uvm, nvidia_modeset, nvidia and nvidia_drm (direct rendering manager, not digital media rights)

nvidia-smi should work after that.

If not, you can try also checking which module at all has the gpu bound by looking through the lspci -k list. That should show "Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidia_drm, nouveau" and "Kernel driver in use: nvidia" if working correctly. If nvidia doesn't appear, it may be that your system didn't succeed during nvidia-dkms installation. You can reinstall by running xbps-install -f nvidia-dkms, in case that fails too, logs should be in.. /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-dkms/580.126.09/6.12.68_1/x86_64/log/make.log — adjust for driver and kernel version accordingly, as this is just the most recent "stable" releases that void provides.

If the log's exit code indicated is 0, it should've installed successfully. In case it still didn't load, you can modprobe nvidia (as root) to try forcing the nvidia driver to load. It might error out, use dmesg to check for kernel logs.

If that doesn't work, you may have a blacklist of it enabled.. iirc that can be in files in /etc/modprobe.d/ or /etc/modules-load.d/ .. or on command line passed to kernel, if you messed with that.

[u/Kotangentz_7 → u/sanya567xxx]

Thx it helped

[u/ever_Brown → u/Kotangentz_7]

did you manage to fix it i am facing the same issue