Been reading so much here aobut the same issue and still can’t figure it out.
Here’s the bug report nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (454.6 KB)
nvidia-persistenced[52355]: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 130 has read and write permissions for tho
nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
I was reinstalling stuff but still same issue, I added the file you described and still no success. Adding the new log nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (302.5 KB)
[ 812.773733] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s).
[ 812.774410] NVRM: This can occur when a driver such as:
NVRM: nouveau, rivafb, nvidiafb or rivatv
NVRM: was loaded and obtained ownership of the NVIDIA device(s).
[ 812.774411] NVRM: Try unloading the conflicting kernel module (and/or
NVRM: reconfigure your kernel without the conflicting
NVRM: driver(s)), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module
NVRM: again.
Still nouveau is used.
Make sure the blacklist file exists. Also make sure nvidiafb is blacklisted.
Re-generate your initramfs, as generix told you. Reboot.