Explanation of Warning: Missing Vulkan ICD Loader During NVIDIA Driver 565.57.01 Installation on Debian 12

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I’m installing the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver (version 565.57.01) on my Debian 12 (Bookworm) system. During the installation, I encountered the following warning:

WARNING: This NVIDIA driver package includes Vulkan components, but no Vulkan ICD loader was detected on this system. The NVIDIA Vulkan ICD will not function without the loader. Most distributions package the Vulkan loader; try installing the "vulkan-loader", "vulkan-icd-loader", or "libvulkan1" package.

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Current Status:

  • The driver installation was completed without any errors.
  • I can use the GPU for my applications, and nvidia-smi works as expected.
root@buildhost:~# nvidia-smi
Thu Jan  9 15:57:57 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 565.57.01              Driver Version: 565.57.01      CUDA Version: 12.7     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| 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 RTX A4000               Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  Off |
| 41%   35C    P8              6W /  140W |      15MiB /  16376MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      1212      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                              8MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Steps I Have Taken:

  1. I ran the following commands:

    sudo apt update
sudo apt install vulkan-loader vulkan-icd-loader libvulkan1

    However, vulkan-loader and vulkan-icd-loader are not available in the Debian 12 repositories.

  2. Installed libvulkan1, mesa-vulkan-drivers, and vulkan-validationlayers as they appear to provide Vulkan support:

    sudo apt install libvulkan1 mesa-vulkan-drivers vulkan-validationlayers

  3. Attempted to install vulkan-tools to get access to vulkaninfo, and this installed successfully:

    sudo apt install vulkan-tools

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Questions:

  1. What exactly does the warning mean? Is it related to missing Vulkan functionality for the GPU?
  2. Are the packages libvulkan1, mesa-vulkan-drivers, and vulkan-validationlayers sufficient to resolve this warning?
  3. Since my GPU and applications are functioning as expected, can this warning be safely ignored, or could it cause issues in certain Vulkan-enabled applications?
  4. Is there any additional setup required to fully enable Vulkan support for NVIDIA drivers on Debian 12?

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