"No devices were found" after running nvidia-smi in Fedora42 when latest driver was installed

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hello forums, I meet some troubles when I install the nvidia driver, the command output message says that: “No devices were found”. The following message may be helpful to determine the question:

  • GPU: 5060ti 16G gpu
  • OS: Fedora Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
  • Kernel: Linux 6.14.6-300.fc42.x86_64
  • Driver version: NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 570.153.02 Tue May 13 16:34:43 UTC 2025
  • GCC version: gcc version 15.1.1 20250425 (Red Hat 15.1.1-1) (GCC)

I also observe some strange results:
After running lspci | grep -e VGA, I get:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 2d04 (rev a1)

Is that reasonable to get this result?

The dmesg generates some errors after running nvidia-smi:

[   17.623703] [drm:nv_drm_load [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice
[   17.623892] [drm:nv_drm_register_drm_device [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to register device

and

[   53.521254] NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:01:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:2d04)
               NVRM: installed in this system requires use of the NVIDIA open kernel modules.
[   53.521277] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x22:0x56:884)
[   53.522357] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0
[  120.711958] NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:01:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:2d04)
               NVRM: installed in this system requires use of the NVIDIA open kernel modules.
[  120.711980] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x22:0x56:884)
[  120.713174] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0
[ 1131.828515] NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:01:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:2d04)
               NVRM: installed in this system requires use of the NVIDIA open kernel modules.
[ 1131.828538] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x22:0x56:884)
[ 1131.830450] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0

Besides, the commands I install the nvidia driver refer to the rpmfusion, which are:

sudo dnf update -y # and reboot if you are not on the latest kernel
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia # rhel/centos users can use kmod-nvidia instead
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda #optional for cuda/nvdec/nvenc support

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (102.2 KB)

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Run these commands to switch to open

sudo sh -c 'echo "%_with_kmod_nvidia_open 1" > /etc/rpm/macros.nvidia-kmod'
sudo akmods --kernels $(uname -r) --rebuild
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Thanks! The nvidia-smi works fine now after running the commands. Very impressive.