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Tani

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Registered: 2026-08-13

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Re: nvidia-smi shows "No devices were found"

Did both of them, no change

system journal after doing the acpi_osi setting, if it helps
https://termbin.com/uzz1

if any other info is needed to troubleshoot, please do tell

seth

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Re: nvidia-smi shows "No devices were found"

acpi_osi=! "acpi_osi=Windows "

That's a bogus parameter.
"pci=realloc" isn't set at all.

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Tani

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Registered: 2026-08-13

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Re: nvidia-smi shows "No devices were found"

https://termbin.com/xi3tu

sorry, did i do it correctly now?

i did the realloc separately before

still no devices found

seth

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Re: nvidia-smi shows "No devices were found"

acpi_osi=! "acpi_osi=Windows 2015"

acpi_osi=! acpi_osi="Windows 2015"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo … inacpi-osi
Mind the quotation.

There's a bunch of parameters to influence this, see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torva … meters.txt
Maybe try "pci=realloc,noacpi,noearly"

Also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo … _UEFI/BIOS
Have you found any other reports of this kind of problem for your hardware?

It seems nuts that lenovo blunders the ACPI addressing of the GPU on a "gaming" notebook

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Tani

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Re: nvidia-smi shows "No devices were found"

new error after the putting "pci=realloc,noacpi,noearly"

[EDIT]- mousepad also stops working when i apply the above in kernel parameters

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

https://termbin.com/tsb9

No, i have not seen any reports of problem with my notebook's gpu/pci addressing

i will try other parameters too to see if that makes a difference

Last edited by Tani (2026-08-17 10:15:12)

seth

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Re: nvidia-smi shows "No devices were found"

Aug 17 15:44:26 tanipartner kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: can't find IRQ for PCI INT A; please try using pci=biosirq

Try "pci=realloc,noacpi,noearly,biosirq"  but at this point I'd frankly suggest to install windows to establish principal functionality of the hardware (bus layout)

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Tani

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Registered: 2026-08-13

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Re: nvidia-smi shows "No devices were found"

i think i will now get it checked to see if its a physical hardware problem

thanks alot for helping me throughout this!