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dizzycomedi

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[SOLVED]nvidia driver isnt working

nvidia settings wont load the driver, it says the registry key is inaccessible  despite the it being in the correct directory
also nvidia smi outputs an error about communicating with the driver

Last edited by dizzycomedi (2025-12-23 10:41:56)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]nvidia driver isnt working

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Post the actual error messages verbatim and also your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

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dizzycomedi

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Re: [SOLVED]nvidia driver isnt working

heres the output of journalctl 0x0.st/Pzcw.txt

and nvidia-settings:
ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded

(nvidia-settings:11288): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 07:57:03.555: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

** (nvidia-settings:11288): CRITICAL **: 07:57:03.560: ctk_powermode_new: assertion '(ctrl_target != NULL) && (ctrl_target->h != NULL)' failed

ERROR: nvidia-settings could not find the registry key file or the X server is not accessible. This file should have been
       installed along with this driver at /usr/share/nvidia/nvidia-application-profiles-key-documentation. The application
       profiles will continue to work, but values cannot be prepopulated or validated, and will not be listed in the help text.
       Please see the README for possible values and descriptions.

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Re: [SOLVED]nvidia driver isnt working

Dec 23 07:33:22 archlinux kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:02:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:1d33)
                                  NVRM: installed in this system is not supported by open
                                  NVRM: nvidia.ko because it does not include the required GPU
                                  NVRM: System Processor (GSP).
                                  NVRM: Please see the 'Open Linux Kernel Modules' and 'GSP
                                  NVRM: Firmware' sections in the driver README, available on
                                  NVRM: the Linux graphics driver download page at
                                  NVRM: www.nvidia.com.

https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-d … l-modules/

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dizzycomedi

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Re: [SOLVED]nvidia driver isnt working

Downloading nvidia-580xx-dkms and the corresponding packages with yay solved it for me, thanks