RTX 5060 Ti not working on Ubuntu 24.04 – All drivers (560/575/580) fail with “Failed to allocate NvkmsKapiDevice”

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My new ZOTAC RTX 5060 Ti (Device ID 20d4) works perfectly in Windows, but on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS it never initializes with any NVIDIA driver.

System:

  • MSI PRO B760M-A WiFi

  • Intel 12th Gen CPU

  • Secure Boot: Disabled

  • BIOS Mode: UEFI

  • PEG/PCI_E1 Gen Mode: Gen4

  • Resizable BAR: Enabled

  • Display connected via DP to GPU

Ubuntu kernels tested:

  • 6.8.0-88-generic

  • 6.11 / 6.14 OEM kernels

Drivers tested (all fail):

  • 560.xx → repo install fails or GPU not detected

  • 575.xx → installs but GPU not detected

  • 580.119.02 (.run from NVIDIA) → modules load but GPU does not initialize

Consistent error across all drivers:



nvidia-drm: Failed to allocate NvkmsKapiDevice (GPU ID 0x0000:01:00)
nvidia-smi: No devices were found

Other observations:

  • lspci correctly shows the GPU and NVIDIA audio device

  • Nouveau is blacklisted

  • All NVIDIA kernel modules load (nvidia, nvidia-drm, nvidia-modeset, nvidia-uvm)

  • DKMS fails on OEM kernels, works on 6.8 but GPU still offline

  • BIOS set to PEG only, iGPU disabled / auto tested

Questions:

  1. Is RTX 5060 Ti (Device ID 20d4) fully supported by driver 560/575/580?

  2. Is kernel 6.8 supported for this GPU?

  3. Is this a known issue (KMS allocation failure) for RTX 50-series on Linux?

  4. Is a VBIOS update or upcoming driver required?

I can provide full logs if needed (dmesg, installer log, debug dumps).

Thank you.

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Welcome @parul238 to the NVIDIA developer forums.

Please check »»»»»»»»»» If you have a problem, PLEASE read this first «««««««««« and provide the details mentioned there.

Thanks!

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Also have this issue:
Motherboard: MSI MAG Z890 TOMAHAWK WIFI
CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16G GAMING OC
OS: Ubuntu 26.04 (Wayland)

Confirming that the system works perfectly on kernel 7.0.0-31 using the 595.84 driver line. However, updating to any newer kernel (tested on 7.0.0-38 and 7.0.0-42) causes an immediate boot crash with unreadable horizontal lines across the display.

Checked the historical journalctl logs of the broken boot sessions, and they confirm the identical error:
[drm:nv_drm_dev_load [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000200] Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice

Compiling the newer 595.99.02 driver specifically into the 7.0.0-42 kernel does not resolve the issue; the memory allocation error persists. Pinning the system to the .31 kernel is currently the only workaround to keep a functioning display.

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Please share nvidia-bug-report to check this issue further.

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I removed some of the attachments as I received a bounce reply too many attachments.

(attachments)

debug_42.txt (1.78 KB)
nvidia-bug-report.log_2_31.gz (520 KB)
nvidia-bug-report.log_2_42_extradata.gz (287 KB)

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Update:

AI and I finally arrived at a working system this morning.

It came down to getting the kernel and driver in sync.

Still not sure how they got out of sync but things are working now.
cire@cire-MS-7E32:~$ uname -a
Linux cire-MS-7E32 7.0.0-43-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Oct 23 13:25:25 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux
cire@cire-MS-7E32:~$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME=“Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS”
NAME=“Ubuntu”
VERSION_ID=“26.04”
VERSION=“26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon)”
VERSION_CODENAME=resolute
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL=“https://www.ubuntu.com/”
SUPPORT_URL=“https://help.ubuntu.com/”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/”
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL=“https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy”
UBUNTU_CODENAME=resolute
LOGO=ubuntu-logo
cire@cire-MS-7E32:~$ nvidia-smi
Tue Nov 10 14:42:49 2026