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sulfuricacidx

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Registered: 2025-08-27

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[SOLVED] Unknown Graphics in Gnome System Settings

Good morning!

I have recently reinstalled Arch with Gnome 48.4. I have an NVIDIA 4070 graphics card. I am running driver version 580.76.05 (nvidia-open) on kernel 6.16.3. When I go into Gnome System Settings, it shows graphics as 'Unknown.' However, the graphics driver appears to be working in games and apps and when I run nvidia-smi, I get the following output:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.76.05              Driver Version: 580.76.05      CUDA Version: 13.0     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 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 RTX 4070        Off |   00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   34C    P8             16W /  200W |     719MiB /  12282MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

One thing I did try was to update this line in the grub config with the nvidia_drm flag: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet nvidia_drm.modeset=1"

glxinfo also outputs the correct video card information from what I can tell.

Is this a known issue? Is there a way to fix this? What am I missing? I tried plenty of internet searches with not much luck.

Last edited by sulfuricacidx (2025-08-30 19:07:39)

sulfuricacidx

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Registered: 2025-08-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Unknown Graphics in Gnome System Settings

Also, lspci outputs this...

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation AD104 [GeForce RTX 4070] (rev a1)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Unknown Graphics in Gnome System Settings

gnome might be running on the simpledrm device if the nvidia driver inits too late.
Does this remain after restarting gnome (and possibly GDM)?

SIdebar: nvidia-open is currently not the suggested driver for Ada chips (but the binary nvidia driver)

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sulfuricacidx

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Registered: 2025-08-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Unknown Graphics in Gnome System Settings

Still remains after restarting both Gnome and GDM. I swapped to the normal NVIDIA driver as well. That did not change anything.

tethys

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Registered: 2019-08-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Unknown Graphics in Gnome System Settings

Just wanted to say that I experience the same thing for months now, although my NVIDIA card works normally.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Unknown Graphics in Gnome System Settings

Just a gnome bug in "detecting" the GPU: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-co … ssues/3474

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