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lucenabo

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Registered: 2023-11-17

Posts: 18

NVIDIA driver doesn't detect GPU

So I've downloaded a game to trying gaming on linux, but I noticed that the game was very slow, and don't need crazy requeriments. I'm on a laptop and I had a RTX 3050. I have installed drivers from the official nvidia web, and doesn't work, from AUR and still doesn't work. When I run nvidia-smi I get this 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. I'm noob on Arch so if you can explain in detail better.
Thank you in advanced

Last edited by lucenabo (2023-11-28 22:54:12)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,403

Re: NVIDIA driver doesn't detect GPU

I have installed drivers from the official nvidia web, and doesn't work, from AUR and still doesn't work.

So you did something stupid and then something less but still stupid.
Now get rid of those again and make sure to follow all steps in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation

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