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ItsGameWolf

Member

Registered: 2026-01-14

Posts: 1

Nvidia GPU not detected on my asus laptop

Hi hi,

So I just cannot get Arch to recognize my laptop's RTX 4070 while I have installed the nvidia drivers.
When I try the "lspci -k -d ::03xx" command from the wiki I only see my intergrated graphics and when I try "nvidia-smi" I get "NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running." Did I miss something?
I installed nvidia-utils, nvidia-settings and nvidia-open-dkms so I don't really get what I am missing here.
I apologise in advance if the answer is really clear and I'm just being stupid

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,528

Re: Nvidia GPU not detected on my asus laptop

If it's not in lspci, it's most likely disabled in the UEFI settings.