Questions tagged [nvidia]
nvidia is used for question particular to the nVidia range of graphic boards/chips and their drivers. Use it only if you know for sure the problem is not a general graphics board issue (in that case use the tag: graphics)
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Debian 13 switch to Nvidia proprietary drivers
I'm trying to get Nvidia proprietary drivers (for RTX5070 Ti) working on a fresh Debian (13.2) install.
Starting point: live USB with Debian 13.2
After installing Debian on SSD and enabling non-free ...
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Working NVIDIA drivers on OpenSuSE 16?
I recently upgraded to OpenSuSE 16, which now forces me into wayland. After the upgrade, I had no graphics at all, but I resolved that by installing the newest NVIDIA drivers like the documentation ...
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Nvidia Settings Not Identifying Ultrawide Monitor's as Ultrawide After Update
Recently, after I updated my whole Arch config, something strange happened. My Nvidia Settings isn't showing an ultrawide option for my second monitor, despite both monitors being identical models. I'...
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How to get max resolution from new monitor when it can't be selected in display settings
I was trying to solve an issue of my new monitor not going over 1600 x 920 when it's a 2560x1440 monitor. My other two monitors work fine.
For insight, the new monitor is a GIGABYTE MO27Q2
PopOS 22....
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Cannot Connect Second Monitor via Docking Station Linux Mint
I have two monitors connected to my laptop via a J5 Create docking station. Both monitors connect fine in Windows 11, but in Linux Mint only one of the monitors will switch on. There aren't specific ...
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Ubuntu won't boot ucsi_acpi error, PPM init failed
Possibly after an update, or an update of the Windows dual-boot partition, my Ubuntu 24.04 won't boot: it shows the waiting circle and "Press ctrl-C to cancel filesystem checks in progress", ...
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How to easily install proprietary NVIDIA driver on LMDE 7?
In the following days, I intend to reinstall my Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon.
Originally, I have thought I would go for the newly released LMDE 7 (Linux Mint Debian Edition) based on Trixie.
I only have one ...
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Debian 13 - Nvidia Issue on Boot-up
I am keep getting error on my machine:
NVRM: mmapAllocWithSecInfo: RMAPI_GPU_LOCK_INTERNAL alloc requested without holding the RMAPI lock
My machine details:
ThinkPad P14s Gen 4, 32GB Ram, NVIDIA RTX ...
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How can the FPS decrease if only above specific monitor
Currently my system have 2 gpus (Amd and Nvidia), and 2 diferent monitors connected to each of them. The Xorg is running using the Amd one. But the situation is:
Run glxgears over Amd's monitor: ~60 ...
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NVIDIA proprietary driver "ConnectedMonitor" option doesn't work with headless setup
From NVIDIA documentation:
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "string"
Allows you to override what the NVIDIA kernel module detects is connected to your graphics card. This may be useful, ...
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How to setup Manjaro Linux and GRUB menu to switch between open source or proprietary video drivers?
Manjaro Linux installation image has 2 options on GRUB menu:
setparams 'Boot with open source drivers' 'x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_KDE_2587 quiet ...
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Monitor continuous blanking issue on Ubuntu 20.04
I have a workstation at work that was given to me for a project and it's on my desk with my work's laptop. Not liking the idea of having 2 mice and 2 keyboards on my desk and all, I decided to buy a ...
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Nvidia Proprietary vs Open drivers - differences?
I work primarily on a laptop with Nvidia 4070 card (Ada Lovelace codename), and not so long ago, I noticed out of nowhere appeared some Open drivers as an alternative to Proprietary, and what's more, ...
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How to set full scene antialiasing in Nvidia RTX3050 in On-demand PRIME Profile
In the performance mode Prime profile, there is a page in the settings where I can select anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, etc. There I set the maximum parameters and in applications I see high ...
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Chrome not use NVIDIA rendering
Environment: QEMU + KVM virtual machine with QXL virtual graphics card, directly connected to NVIDIA.
NVIDIA drivers installed in the virtual machine.
Environment variables set:
export ...
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transcode movies efficiently when 2 GPUs are available
I have a Kodi video library where each movie is in its own folder because I had to place .nfo files with links to TMDB in each folder to ensure correct identification. The movies are in their original ...
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Can't update CachyOS: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) with linux-firmware-nvidia
Whenever I try to update my system for the past few months, I get the following errors:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 ...
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After boot, screen freezes: Mint 22.1 Xia on Sager NHx0DB,DE, i7-10870H, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 M
Just received a Sager NHx0DB,DE w/ i7-10870H CPU & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile GPU.
Cinnamon Mint 22.1 Xia was preinstalled by Freegeek.org a no-support community non-profit refurbisher.
I ...
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NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti causes black screen and very slow boot
I've recently purchased an NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti, but it doesn't work properly under Linux.
The card works perfectly under Windows 11, so hardware failure can be ruled out.
When the PC boots, I can see ...
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nvidia-detect installed but the command not found
I was reinstalling nvidia driver on my Debian 12, but couldn't get nvidia-detect working: it is installed and can be seen from apt list but the command is not found.
$ apt search nvidia-detect
nvidia-...
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What to do when "cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power/runtime_status" prints out "error"?
I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile discrete GPU for gaming, and frequently run "cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/power/runtime_status" to check if the GPU is running or not. ...
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Nvidia 1060 with GPU Passthru on a virtual machine
I'm running proxmox with an nvidia 1060 that I'm passing through to a Linux guest operating system.
I'm expecting the GPU to to render to the video out which it does sometimes and I'm struggling to ...
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Arch Linux not using the Nvidia GPU
Arch Linux not using the Nvidia GPU.
This happened after I installed Steam. My gaming experience became laggy and the laptop became quiet, that happens when my Nvidia GPU isn't used. I decided to ...
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CUDA initialization: Unexpected error from cudaGetDeviceCount() error while trying to install Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD + nvidia driver 570.144
I'm trying to install Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD 14.2 + nvidia driver 570.144,following this tutorial :
https://github.com/verm/freebsd-stable-diffusion
There Verm used nvidia driver 525 and FreeBSD ...
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ProxMox with GPU Pass through displaying start failed
I have an Nvidia 1060 which is currently not used. I would like to assign this graphics card to be used by a virtual machine. I'm thinking the output can be mapped directly to the hdmi output? or back ...
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Ubuntu stuck at loading ramdisk after installing rtx 5080
I switched from rtx 2080ti to rtx5080, I have dual boot system, windows works fine, ubuntu black screen, in recovery mode I see that it's stuck in "loading ramdisk". I couldn't even boot ...
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NVENC encoder missing in OBS, AUR package fails to compile on Arch Linux
I have an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090. I am trying to use the NVENC encoder on OBS. Currently, only the software option, x264, appears in the settings. I attempted to install NVENC using the AUR. However, ...
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Rendering using the Workbench engine using Blender as a Python module on Amazon Linux 2023 causes libEGL error and takes way too long
I am trying to get Blender cloud rendering with Nvidia GPUs to work. I am using Blender 4.1 as a module.
When rendering using Workbench (or Eevee) I get an error, the render takes much much longer ...
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Alienware M16 R2 does not boot many Linux distros after BIOS update
I bought an M16 R2 this September. I ran Fedora, Kali, Void, etc., without a problem until the BIOS update, version 1.10.0. I manually updated to 1.11.0, but to no avail. I suspect NVIDIA Optimus ...
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What's the point of removing KMS with nvidia drivers? It seems to only cause errors
Remove kms from the HOOKS array in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and regenerate the initramfs. This will prevent the initramfs from containing the nouveau module making sure the kernel cannot load it during ...
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GNOME on Xorg login fails with black screen on Fedora 41 (GTX 1050 / Intel 630)
I'm new to Linux. I've been using XWayland as my main display server, but I want to switch to Xorg. However, when I select GNOME Xorg from the login screen, my screen goes black, the cursor becomes an ...
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How to make `ffmpeg` use GPU mostly for reducing file sizes?
I'm on Debian 12 & I'm using a ryzen 5600H with integrated graphics + Nvidia 1650 setup & I'm running the following command
ffmpeg -y -hwaccel cuda -i input.mp4 -vcodec libx264 -crf 24 output....
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Jetson TK1 PCIe Link Training Fails on x4 Lane Endpoint (Kernel 3.10.40, R21.5)
I’m working with a Jetson TK1 where it’s configured as a PCIe Root Complex, connected to two endpoints:
An FPGA on a x1 lane
A PowerPC processor on a x4 lane
During boot-up, the Jetson consistently ...
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Monitor doesnt work after installing nvidia drivers
On a fresh install of fedora, both my monitor and laptop screen were working perfectly fine, then after installing nvidia drivers, they installed successfully, but my secondary monitor connected via ...
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Vulkan not working correctly on ubuntu 24.04
I have been trying to get lutris to work on ubuntu for the last week or so now, but there seems to be some underlying issue with Vulkan and I do not know how to proceed.
I get the following error:
tue@...
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Ubuntu Budgie 24.10 - app center error "unable to create gx session"
Opening the App Center tool and other applications such as Desktop Security and the firmware updater results in an empty page with the error message: "Unable to create GX session" on Ubuntu ...
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Which NVIDIA CUDA version works with Linux Mint 21,22, which kernel and driver?
I want to try to use GPU in my old laptop with Linux Mint 21 (kernel 5.15.0-41-generic, based on Ubuntu jammy). Trying to get NVIDIA driver and CUDA working I've found out already:
can install with ...
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Screen Tearing on virt-manager with QEMU/KVM on NVidia GPUS with 3D Acceleration
I managed to get my NVidia GPU (RTX 3070) working with 3D acceleration in virt-manager. I had to make a user QEMU/KVM session as there's some bug not causing it to not work in the system/root session. ...
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How do I get rootless podman to work with nvidia gpu after reboot?
I have a RHEL9 system with a NVIDIA L40S and Driver Version: 570.124.06 CUDA Version: 12.8.
Installed as described here by (basically) running:
# dnf config-manager --add-repo http://developer....
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Linux notebook stuttering after resume from hibernation
My ThinkPad P1 gen6 runs on Arch Linux. I use nvidia-driver and gnome-shell (Wayland).
After a normal start, everything is perfectly working.
After a resume from hibernation, the system begins to ...
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Nvidia Optimus laptop always using Nvidia GPU and never the integrated one
I have successfully installed Nvidia proprietary drivers on Debian 12 but now my system is always using dedicated Nvidia GPU and never the integrated intel one to save battery life. I am pretty sure ...
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Can't generate secure boot keys for installing nvidia drivers
To reach the point I am at I have
Installed debian with xfce
made my self a sudoer
added deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware to the sources list
Now ...
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After installing Debian Sid's Nvidia 390 drivers I'm left with software rendering
My final goal is to make use of a Geforce GTX 550 Ti on a modern Linux Gnome desktop. Since recent Ubuntu versions stopped supporting the Nvidia 390 driver that is required for this I instead chose ...
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Spotify lagging and unresponsive UI on Arch linux
I’ve been having some issues with Spotify on Arch Linux (installed from the AUR using yay). When I try to play a song, there’s a noticeable delay before it actually starts (graphically), though I can ...
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How to enroll MOK after choosing continue boot option?
I wanted to install nvidia drivers at my Ubuntu 24.04 with Secure Boot enabled, so i got promted to set a MOK key, rebooted my laptop and then accidently pushed enter, so "Continue boot" ...
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EndeavourOS becoming unbearable after a while of playing a game
I have my laptop (ASUS TUF A14) and a secondary monitor. After playing a Minecraft for about 30-60m entire OS becomes stuttery and unusable (like a frame a second), even in the TTY consoles, and when ...
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I want to activate Nvidia gpu on debian(X11)
So I have nvidia drivers installed but nvidia gpu is set on offload. How to activate it in X11???
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How to set nvidia GPU as primary GPU in debian 12
$ loginctl show-session 2 -p Type
Type=x11
As you can see I have set and installed Nvidia drivers on Debian 12. It's currently using x11. So I have 2 things to ask:
Should I switch to Wayland?
If ...
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Installing Nvidia Graphics Drivers on Debian 12 "Bookworm" and enrolling machine owner's key (MOK) to use DKMS modules
Editor's Note: I'm adding the link below as I answered his original question. If the OP disagrees with this please remove the edit
Linked Question: What do I need to make my Debian see my external ...
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no nvidia gpu found
while i was installing Davinci resolve on debian i ran into a problem
unsupported GPU processing mode
while i really don't know how to solve it i used a tutorial from youtube
and by the time i ...