ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded - When prime-select is set to intel

Graphics / Linux Linux
#1

Hello, When I try to open nvidia-settings after I set prime-select to intel. nvidia-settings is blank and I get this in my terminal.

ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded


ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system


(nvidia-settings:5445): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 09:37:14.262: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** Message: 09:37:14.266: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort
** Message: 09:37:14.266: PRIME: is it supported? no

I have nvidia-driver-495 installed on Zorin 16.
nvidia-settings opens fine when prime-select is set to nvidia.

#2

The purpose of prime-select intel is to turn off the nvidia gpu. For obvious reasons, you can’t query a device which is turned off.

#3

Before I updated Nvidia packages, Nvidia settings would normally open on prime-select on intel. There were not a lot of options, but it would allow me to reenable the GPU.

#4

Then you were using the patched ubuntu version of nvidia-settings before, now you have the original nvidia one. How did you upgrade drivers?

#5

I used the built in software updater on Zorin.

#6

Then maybe ask in the Zorin forums if they have replaced the ubuntu repo with their own repo that doesn’t include the patched version.