NVIDIA drivers not being detected in Fedora/KDE

Graphics / Linux Linux
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I am using Fedora 30 with KDE environment. I have installed drivers through RPMFusion. Although drivers have been installed via dnf, but when I run nvidia-settings, I get this:

[sntshk@localhost ~]$ nvidia-settings 

ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded

ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

And this with nvidia-smi:

[sntshk@localhost ~]$ 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 also tried nvidia-xconfig for new configuration. But after reboot, it stuck with the cursor on the top left side of the screen.

If there is any more information needed, please ask.

EDIT:

Output of lspci:

[sntshk@localhost ~]$ lspci | grep NVIDIA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107GL [Quadro K620] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fbc (rev a1)

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (63.4 KB)

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Please run nvidia-bug-report.sh as root and attach the resulting .gz file to your post. Hovering the mouse over an existing post of yours will reveal a paperclip icon.
[url]https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1043347/announcements/attaching-files-to-forum-topics-posts/[/url]

3

Yes, I have updated the post with bug report attachment. You can proceed.

4

You have secure boot enabled, so the nvidia driver can’t be loaded since it isn’t signed. Please disable secure boot in bios.
Furthermore, nouveau still loads, please create/edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf adding

blacklist nouveau

Then update the initrd using
dracut -f

5

Wow!! Thank you very much. That solved a lot of problems. Thanks a lot!

6

Dear Sir, i installed the nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-430.14 on Dell Inspiron 7460, but when run nvidia-settings show this message : ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system.
root@coruscant Downloads# uname -a
Linux coruscant.localdomain 5.0.17-300.fc30.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 20 15:36:26 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@coruscant Downloads# lspci |grep -E ‘VGA|3D’
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce 940MX] (rev a2)
root@coruscant Downloads# nvidia-smi
Sun May 26 20:16:13 2019
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 430.14 Driver Version: 430.14 CUDA Version: 10.2 |
|-------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce 940MX Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 44C P0 N/A / N/A | 0MiB / 4046MiB | 0% Default |
±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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It’s an Optimus notebook, so you will have to configure it to use PRIME
[url]https://github.com/wildtruc/nvidia-prime-select[/url]
[url]https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1022670/linux/official-driver-384-59-with-geforce-1050m-doesn-t-work-on-opensuse-tumbleweed-kde/post/5203910/#5203910[/url]
For further issues, please open a new thread.

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[ 0.000000] secureboot: Secure boot enabled
[ 0.000000] Kernel is locked down from EFI secure boot; see man kernel_lockdown.7

You have secure boot enabled, you need to disable it from the EFI/BIOS.
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Secure_Boot

EDIT: Don’t blacklist nouveau as others said, It’s totally pointless , nouveau is disabled by others means using the “RPM Fusion” package. (but the secure boot has to be disabled for nvidia to be in a working state).

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Hello, I am experiencing a similar problem as the OP but blacklisting nouveau and disabling secure boot have not fixed my problem. On startup my screen shows “nvidia kernel module missing falling back to nouveau”.

I have installed nvidia graphics drivers using rpmfusion (akmod-nvidia) however when i run nvidia-smi I get the error “command not found”.

Here is Nvidia-settings:
[alex@Alex-PC ~]$ nvidia-settings

ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded

ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

Here is the lspci:
[alex@Alex-PC ~]$ lspci | grep NVIDIA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 3GB] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

Attached is the bug-report
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (79.3 KB)

If there is anything you can do to help me I would appreciate it very much.

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Hi @zovek182

By reading your bug log, the Nvidia driver is not correctly installed and nouveau is still active.
Please follow this instruction here → Howto/NVIDIA - RPM Fusion

Blacklisting nouveau

$ echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Remove nouveau driver

$ dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nouveau

Edit /etc/sysconfig/grub

Append ‘rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau’ to end of ‘GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=

## Example row ##
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=fedora/swap rd.lvm.lv=fedora/root rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau"

Update grub2 conf

## For BIOS ##
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

## For UEFI ##
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg

Generate initramfs

## Backup old initramfs nouveau image ##
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
 
## Create new initramfs image ##
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

Install the latest Nvidia driver from here - Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD driver 450.66 [long-lived branch release]

Before rebooting, edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf as per below (you didn’t have it):

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
    FontPath        "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dri2"
    Load           "glamoregl"
    Load           "modesetting"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "DELL"
    ModelName      "a07a"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GTX 1050"
    BusID          "PCI:1@0:0:0"
    Option	       "Interactive" "0"
    Option         "NoLogo" "true"
    Option         "UseEDID" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes      "nvidia-auto-select"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

If you were still unable to get it working, please attach a new nvidia-bug-report file again.