I have done a fresh install of Pop!_OS and need some guidance and help to get my nVidia GPU to work on my laptop. Any information you need I can supply but I do need some guidance since my knowledge is a bit lacking sorry.
OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Kernel: Linux 6.4.6-76060406-generic
Laptop: Dell Inspiron 3543
GPUs: nVidia GeForce 840M, Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500
Driver: 535.104.05
My main concern is nvidia-smi gives me an output of No devices were found and nvidia settings is empty. Another thing I have noticed is nvidia settings isn’t happy with not having Prime for GPU switching since the main reason I installed Pop!_OS is for the built in GPU switching but I don’t care about the Intel GPU since I always have my laptop on charge I just want my nVidia GPU to work.
The result of sudo nvidia-settings is
ERROR: A supplied argument is invalid
(nvidia-settings:6505): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 09:59:13.208: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** (nvidia-settings:6505): CRITICAL **: 09:59:13.210: ctk_powermode_new: assertion '(ctrl_target != NULL) && (ctrl_target->h != NULL)' failed
** (nvidia-settings:6505): WARNING
**: 09:59:13.261: PRIME: Failed to execute child process “/usr/bin/prime-supported” (No such file or directory)** Message: 09:59:13.261: PRIME: is it supported? no.
I had an issue where I was also getting an Error for nvidia-settings could not find the registry key file or the X server is not accessible.
Which I resolved with sudo ln -s nvidia-application-profiles-535.104.05-key-documentation nvidia-application-profiles-key-documentation as I read here ERROR: nvidia-settings could not find the registry key file
I have little to no knowledge so please bear with me and if you need any information I can arrange for whatever is needed.
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