Installing Titan Xp on Raspberry Pi 5 via PCIe board, getting RmInitAdapter failed

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Hi there! I’m trying to assemble the following system for a barebones, network-accessible GPU:

  • Raspberry Pi 5 8GB
  • NVIDIA Titan Xp GPU
  • GeeekPi P02 PCIe Slot for Raspberry Pi 5

I’ve installed the latest Raspberry Pi 64-bit OS Lite in headless mode (Linux pi5 6.6.74+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.74-1+rpt1 (2025-01-27) aarch64 GNU/Linux) + drivers (NVIDIA-Linux-aarch64-550.144.03.run). Build and install of drivers ran flawlessly. Rebooting I get the following:

rbates@pi5:~/tmp $ lspci
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM2712 PCIe Bridge (rev 21)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP102 [TITAN Xp] (rev a1)
0000:01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP102 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)
0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM2712 PCIe Bridge (rev 21)
0001:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Raspberry Pi Ltd RP1 PCIe 2.0 South Bridge
rbates@pi5:~/tmp $ lshw -c display
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GP102 [TITAN Xp]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: iomemory:40-3f iomemory:40-3f irq:38 memory:1b80000000-1b80ffffff memory:1800000000-180fffffff memory:1810000000-1811ffffff memory:1b81000000-1b8107ffff
  *-graphics
       product: vc4drmfb
       physical id: 9
       logical name: /dev/fb0
       capabilities: fb
       configuration: depth=16 resolution=1920,1080

So it appears the driver is installed and associated with the GPU, but nvidia-smi shows no devices available and dmesg logs report:

NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x31:0xffff:2640)

Logs + debug output attached. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (68.3 KB)
nvidia-installer.log (43.6 KB)

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Looking at your debug log:

Feb 17 22:40:56 pi5 kernel: [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
Feb 17 22:40:56 pi5 kernel: [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 2
Feb 17 22:41:29 pi5 kernel: NVRM: Chipset not recognized (vendor ID 0x14e4, device ID 0x2712)
Feb 17 22:41:33 pi5 kernel: NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x31:0xffff:2640)
Feb 17 22:41:33 pi5 kernel: NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0

it seems like the driver has an issue with recognising the Broadcom, (vendor ID 14E4) PCI Bridge.

Possibly a lack of imagination around installing Nvidia GPU’s on Pi’s, on the part of the driver devs.

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Thanks for the insights! Do you think I might have better luck trying to use one of the OSS drivers, where at least maybe I could get support for the Pi’s PCI bridge added…?

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Could be worth a try, although anything based on Nvidia’s Open GPU Kernel Modules only supports GPU’s from Turing onwards.

You could try filing a bug, although it’s unlikely to have a high priority.