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wookie

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Registered: 2026-01-15

Posts: 2

Nvidia-smi shows "No devices were found" on hybrid AMD + NVIDIA Laptop

Hello everyone,
I am new to Arch Linux and Linux in general.
I am using a laptop with hybrid graphics:
i) Integrated GPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H (iGPU)
ii)Dedicated GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile

My Wayland compositor / desktop environment is niri.
While installing NVIDIA drivers, I ran nvidia-smi, but it reports that no devices were found:

$ nvidia-smi
No devices were found

However, the NVIDIA GPU is detected by the system:

$ lspci -nn | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile] [10de:1f95] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:10fa] (rev a1)

I am unsure whether this is related to: Hybrid graphics (AMD iGPU + NVIDIA dGPU) or Wayland / niri or Missing configuration or incorrect driver

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,578

Re: Nvidia-smi shows "No devices were found" on hybrid AMD + NVIDIA Laptop

What, exactly, did you install and what kernel are you running?

wookie

Member

Registered: 2026-01-15

Posts: 2

Re: Nvidia-smi shows "No devices were found" on hybrid AMD + NVIDIA Laptop

I use the standard arch kernel "linux 6.18.5.arch1-1" and I installed "Nvidia-open" Driver through ~

sudo pacman -S nvidia-open