[Solved] "nvidia-smi" failed couldn't communicate with NVIDIA driver.

rajhlinux · 2022-07-20 01:07:03

Hello,

I am using an Nvidia GeForce GT 710 GPU (rev a1)

I am trying to see the GPU temps and clock usage using the following command:

 $ nvidia-smi

I get the following error:

 NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

Here are the details of my PC:

 $ neofetch

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: MS-7693 3.0
Kernel: 5.18.10-arch1-1
Uptime: 17 mins
Packages: 1132 (pacman)
Shell: bash 5.1.16
Resolution: 1920x1080
Terminal: /dev/pts/0
CPU: AMD FX-8350 (8) @ 4.000GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon PRO WX 2100
Memory: 577MiB / 23987MiB

$ pacman -Qs nvidia

local/cuda 11.7.0-2
    NVIDIA's GPU programming toolkit
local/cudnn 8.4.1.50-1
    NVIDIA CUDA Deep Neural Network library
local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.10-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/libvdpau 1.5-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/nccl 2.12.12-1
    Library for NVIDIA multi-GPU and multi-node collective communication primitives
local/nvidia-beta 515.57-1
    NVIDIA drivers for Arch's official 'linux' package (beta version)
local/nvidia-utils-beta 515.57-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (beta version)
local/opencl-nvidia-beta 515.57-1
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA (beta version)
local/python-pycuda 2021.1-10
    Python wrapper for Nvidia CUDA

$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Lexa XT [Radeon PRO WX 2100]
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0b0c
        Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
--
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device 8c93
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

$ sudo dmesg

[    0.000000] Linux version 5.18.10-arch1-1 (linux@archlinux) (gcc (GCC) 12.1.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.38) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:18:13 +0000
[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=0b4aa2c0-6b91-4598-927a-353beda2c5b3 rw quiet loglevel=3 audit=0
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 floating point registers'
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE registers'
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX registers'
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]:  576, xstate_sizes[2]:  256
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context size is 832 bytes, using 'standard' format.
[    0.000000] signal: max sigframe size: 1776

Thanks.

Last edited by rajhlinux (2022-07-20 01:48:40)

loqs · 2022-07-20 01:13:01

[    4.322782] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 GPU installed in this system is
               NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 470.xx Legacy drivers. Please
               NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
               NVRM:  information.  The 515.57 NVIDIA driver will ignore
               NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
[    4.324405] NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.

rajhlinux · 2022-07-20 01:22:20

Thank You I will do this.

rajhlinux · 2022-07-20 01:48:13

loqs wrote:

[    4.322782] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 GPU installed in this system is
               NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 470.xx Legacy drivers. Please
               NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
               NVRM:  information.  The 515.57 NVIDIA driver will ignore
               NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
[    4.324405] NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.

Thank You mate, I installed driver version "470.129.06" from Nvidia site:

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverR … 877/en-us/

Nvidia drivers are working.

nvidia-smi

Tue Jul 19 21:45:20 2022
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.129.06   Driver Version: 470.129.06   CUDA Version: 11.4     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:02:00.0 N/A |                  N/A |
| 50%   49C    P8    N/A /  N/A |      4MiB /  2002MiB |     N/A      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

skunktrader · 2022-07-20 01:58:14

Your life will be easier in the future if you look in the AUR instead of installing random downloaded binaries

Arch Linux

#1 2022-07-20 01:07:03

[Solved] "nvidia-smi" failed couldn't communicate with NVIDIA driver.

#2 2022-07-20 01:13:01

Re: [Solved] "nvidia-smi" failed couldn't communicate with NVIDIA driver.

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